I do not wish to reward yaro's effort, and thereby get more of it. I believe that more of yaro's effort here would result in more comments that are o

Straw man, I'm not talking about rewarding his comment, but his participation. Isn't one of the goals of LW to raise the sanity waterline?

do not believe that the project of nudging them towards improvement is worth community time.

I agree here but I see you are wasting precious community time(actually it's your time) by engaging in a discussion with me. You would have wasted less of our time if you were to give a more constructive reply in the first place.

Please don't use an article about the use of reward to encourage good behavior as a way to say that all behavior is worth rewarding.

Another straw man, I didn't say that.

Please don't use straw men when arguing with me.

I won't waste any more time with this, so I'll leave you the last answer.