Comment by wenc

I don’t mind critical but considered comments.

But I find so many many comments are critical and ill-informed. They’re contrarian but unnuanced.

And people with high karma (>15k) overwhelmingly seem to be the least insightful and most petulant and critical. Examples abound. They’re just low quality, similar to how cranky geezers spewing whatever nonsense they want because “they’ve earned it”

Maybe because they have karma to spend?

I feel that to enable good discussion, there should be a diminishing returns to upvotes to high karma folks.

We should also downvote unthoughtful comments more liberally. Otherwise rot sets in.