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> Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.
Seriously. How often do we get a story that intersects power generation and volcanos?
I read, or at least lightly skim through, the article I post about. But always post whatever comes to mind, regardless of how it will come across.
Touché I guess, but…
> Seriously. How often do we get a story that intersects power generation and volcanos?
Exactly! But your comment and its lame subthread, which all had nothing to do with the article, sat at the top of the thread for hours, drowning out substantive comments that were relevant to the article.
I wouldn’t bother replying if it just slipped down the bottom of the thread. But keeping discussions high-quality and on-topic is my job here and that means reminding people to post thoughtful, substantive comments, not “whatever comes to mind, regardless of how it will come across”. We especially need longer term/more prominent users to set the example, please.