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What's so bad about writing that you know that you'll be downvoted? Many of your comments on the recent meta-ethics threads have been downvoted (at least initially, haven't checked again). So you know that another comment that criticizes the moral theory of someone else is likely to be downvoted as well (I think you even wrote something along those lines).
Saying that you are aware that what you are going to say will be downvoted provides valuable feedback.
That you know that you are going to be downvoted doesn't mean that you know that you are wrong and decided to voice your wrongness again.
Mild spaminess, unhealthy passive aggressive habit, unnecessary insult to the reader.
I find "I know I'll be downvoted" or "I know I'll be flamed" to be tiresome, even though I don't downvote them.
I'd rather be left to form my own opinion relatively freshly.
Also, (and I'm not saying this applied to wedrifid), I frequently find that IKIB* is attached to something which is either innocuous or that ends up being liked.
I will also continue to downvote them, but I'm more likely to explain why.
And, of course, being downvoted doesn't necessarily /mean/ that you're wrong.