My argument, in part by example, was that a large number of short, similar comments explaining why another comment should be downmodded would be annoying. Since the purpose of downmodding is to call less attention to lower-quality comments, putting a large thread of explanatory arguments underneath them seems counterproductive to me.
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"Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of any statement the other person makes..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMlv3ripSM
My argument, in part by example, was that a large number of short, similar comments explaining why another comment should be downmodded would be annoying. Since the purpose of downmodding is to call less attention to lower-quality comments, putting a large thread of explanatory arguments underneath them seems counterproductive to me.