> And so many who just down-vote challenging questions but lack the patience and courage to form an argument

this is a lame attempt to flatter our intelligence but then criticize for not engaging on what are essentially marketing platforms where the stakes are usually zero, and there is no way to demonstrably prove that we're not shills, morons, or GPT bots.

You owe yourself more self-respect. You're probably in the 0.1% of people who could make a difference.

thank you for the kind words, but i am definitely a shill, moron, and/or AI bot.

>so many who just down-vote challenging questions but lack the patience and courage to form an argument.

Fear of the unknown is an impetus for herd mentality.

Hopefully your comment ceases to be gray…

Just been thinking about your remark about "gray". Like am I really so dull? Wow! I just realised that people who use some regular browsers see down-voted comments as kinda faded out. That's really sinister but also quite funny and in character with the dystopian creed.

How about adding random characters and line noise to unpopular comments, or replacing odd words to make them seem more deranged and subtract credibility? That wo ld g1ve the "hacker-like" #eel 00f marg1nal comments ^e$inG aT th33 3nd of s0me %$(k3d Up dd^H^H^Hddddistant dddddial-up modem w$)th iiiine noize insert hippopotamus hatstands sleep furiously

Can you hear me?

sorry, denial/apologetics of what? could you expand on this a bit? thanks!