I’ve had some health issues recently which I needed to get checked out and fortunately turned out to be far less serious than I feared. Stress and exhaustion seem to explain most of my symptoms, but I’ve been struggling to tread water for a few months now. One of the things that fell by the wayside was doing a good job of administering this site. I haven’t paid as much attention as I should have and I didn’t have the energy to address some of the things that I noticed going wrong.
I have one request for the short-term to address the unfortunate tendency that has arisen for people to downrate each other’s comments.
For the next seven days, please refrain from downrating any comments made by any user you have downrated in the past.
I just want a cooling off period.
To reiterate the rules, comments should not be downrated for mere disagreement. I know it can be difficult to discern who is being deliberately disruptive, and some long time users have changed their opinions and behaviors over the last year as the stress of the primary and the disappointment of the general election have shuffled people’s assumptions.
This makes it hard to know quite how to treat some comments without guidance from the top, which has been lacking.
I get it. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone. I just want one week of relief from rating wars. And then we’ll see where we’re at.
Okay?
