@codinghorror wrote:
Hey great! We want lurkers to be rewarded for spending time reading, visiting frequently, etc. That's why a lot of the trust stuff explicitly does not weight posting. (However, it is good to "like" posts and we do try to encourage that.)
Well yeah @markdow's comment was a little off topic for this discussion which is why I didn't want to cover it at length and digress even further.
The meta of it is certainly on topic, though. How do you deal with someone lobbing completely random off-topic (although perhaps valid, I am not a fan of hitting women even in oblique third party reference sarcastic cartoon form) criticism?
I think what I'd recommend doing is telling @markdow to leave that comment on the original post it was related to (e.g. on my blog, which also uses Discourse, and trust me, I see all the posts there), and urging him to comment on some aspect of the actual podcast conversation this topic was about.
Because the best way to prove that you understand something is to teach it to someone else
