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Why all these downvotes? Downvoters, you realise you are the reason people continue to leave LessWrong and you're killing this place.
I considered downvoting. I opted instead to ignore after reading the preamble, which told me nothing but
while taking 3 paragraphs to do it, with page after page after page of dialogue following,
I'm generally for letting anyone share what they have to share, but the tone of the preamble screams of low budget wannabe internet crank [TheProblem(tm), among other issues of tone] , and given that many have a greater signal to noise threshold than I do, I suspect the downvotes were responses to having their crank detector pinged.
I struggled with responding to this, as I don't want to discourage people generally from sending in even the half baked, but this kind of thing also makes people leave LessWrong.
Thanks for the feedback; I guess I have to work out how to tone down the "crank". I kind of have a sense of what you mean by that concept, but I have a habit of leaving a bit of it in there. I will try to strip it out more in future.
While I don't think Eugene is the only one doing this anymore (I doubt he was the one who did it to me, for example), I do think Eugene may have realized that very thing, and it may have become his only real motivation: a way to get his revenge.
Disable downvoting then?