I do think you might be breaking the guidelines of the site - downvote should not be used just for disagreement, or? - but who cares, you're certainly not the only one ;) In any case, thank you for the explanation! I appreciate it.
As for the rest, I partly agree. I am too late to voice any constructive feedback. It was just a general comment on the direction things seem to be going. And I'd rather not participate in the es-discuss, because JavaScript is not my professional focus any more, so I do not have the time or the required expertise. I understand that my comment seems kind of like taking a passing shit on someone's hard work, I'm sorry about that. I hope everyone takes it as nothing more than what it is - just an opinion ;)
All in all, I feel the language is getting overstretched and overcomplicated. And when I see destructuring, I wonder if it's really worth it. Too much complexity can be a problem.
I did not down-vote you for disagreement, I'm firmly against that. I down-voted because it is misleading (probably unintentionally) to say JS is adding a "constant stream of new features"; rather it is all committee and consensus driven work spanning many years with many, many people participating.
I should exercise more restraint next time. Thanks for your reply.
I do think you might be breaking the guidelines of the site - downvote should not be used just for disagreement, or?
Well, it's not mentioned in the guidelines, and there's a bunch of people who do use downvote to disagree. There's a few posts from PG; one where he says that people upvote to agree so it's understandable that they downvote to disagree, and others where he sees it as a problem to be addressed.
It's probably a good idea for people to upvote any posts they think have been unfairly downvoted. This sometimes happens, but probably not often enough.
1. a downvote button, which is available to everyone, but affects only the ranking on the comment list (no graying out due to too many downvotes)
2. a "flag" button, which is available to people with higher karma and serves for moderating.
...because, it seems perfectly human to want to express disagreement with a downvote. I can totally get it, and would/will probably have a hard time restraining myself ^^
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I do think you might be breaking the guidelines of the site - downvote should not be used just for disagreement, or? - but who cares, you're certainly not the only one ;) In any case, thank you for the explanation! I appreciate it.
As for the rest, I partly agree. I am too late to voice any constructive feedback. It was just a general comment on the direction things seem to be going. And I'd rather not participate in the es-discuss, because JavaScript is not my professional focus any more, so I do not have the time or the required expertise. I understand that my comment seems kind of like taking a passing shit on someone's hard work, I'm sorry about that. I hope everyone takes it as nothing more than what it is - just an opinion ;)
All in all, I feel the language is getting overstretched and overcomplicated. And when I see destructuring, I wonder if it's really worth it. Too much complexity can be a problem.
I did not down-vote you for disagreement, I'm firmly against that. I down-voted because it is misleading (probably unintentionally) to say JS is adding a "constant stream of new features"; rather it is all committee and consensus driven work spanning many years with many, many people participating.
I should exercise more restraint next time. Thanks for your reply.
Well, it's not mentioned in the guidelines, and there's a bunch of people who do use downvote to disagree. There's a few posts from PG; one where he says that people upvote to agree so it's understandable that they downvote to disagree, and others where he sees it as a problem to be addressed.
It's probably a good idea for people to upvote any posts they think have been unfairly downvoted. This sometimes happens, but probably not often enough.
Maybe downvotes could be split in two.
1. a downvote button, which is available to everyone, but affects only the ranking on the comment list (no graying out due to too many downvotes)
2. a "flag" button, which is available to people with higher karma and serves for moderating.
...because, it seems perfectly human to want to express disagreement with a downvote. I can totally get it, and would/will probably have a hard time restraining myself ^^