Well, I just got a DM from a person whose posts I really enjoy — one of my favorite posters actually. Long story short, this person thought that I was maybe targeting their types of posts (because this poster often gets in debates with other posters, and those posters would downvote them). This wasn’t my thinking at all… the idea was that it’s not just the people in the debate, but ALL the readers who are voting, and that the most incisive, logical, and interesting posts would float to the top (even if some people didn’t like them). I admit I am giving a lot of credit to the reader community here… maybe it’s valid, maybe not. But that was the dream.

I just wanted to mention this because I clearly gave at least one high-quality poster the wrong impression about my intent! This idea is off the table, as noted above. So this here is just a clarification and an attempt to minimize the number of people I offend. 😉