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None of the feedback has been dismissed. I don't know how to say that any more clearly.
We read every comment. We have worked with other moderators of multiple communities to implement changes based on the feedback we received from the very beginning. This thread is just one of those examples. The mods and users are on the same side in this effort.
Please understand: the only people who are dismissing user feedback are other users when they say things like "no one wants this." That's literally dismissing the many users who express that they find it beneficial. We are working on developing community resources that will meet the needs of most of the people here. That process takes time because we are an asyncronous team of volunteers.
Edit: I should note that the "no one wants this" comment was not meant as a personal attack. I only intended it as a typical example of a reductive, unhelpful, and dismissive comment. I didn't realize until after that you posted another comment on this thread that was substantially similar. My apologies for the inadvertent example.
Perhaps it is true that you've considered all feedback, but I'm sure you can acknowledge my point that comments from mods suggesting that the most downvoted comments are all opposition to the bot, or that votes on upvoted comments ought to be ignored because of vote manipulation might cause those who are opposed to feel as though their opinions have been dismissed.
Regardless, while I look forward to your response should you wish to offer one, I've had my say and I feel as though I've been heard.
I've seen mods suggesting that there is nuance and a diversity of opinion. Its often as a counterpoint to users suggesting that there is monolithic opposition from the users, and mods are forcing something that no one wants. When someone claims to speak for the whole community, then their comment gets dozens of downvotes, those votes are relevant feedback as well.
There is a challenge when portions of the community have mutually exclusive preferences. There is a greater challenge when one portion considers any action based on other's preferences unjustifiable.
No one on the mod team said that. If you're going to appeal that we be honest in our engagement, the least you can do is be honest in yours.
That was my good faith attempt to paraphrase this comment:
I don't think that's a dishonest or disingenuous interpretation.
Yes, cutting a snippet out of a sentence with broader context is a classic form of bad faith argumentation:
The "if" conditional is pretty fundamental in that sentence. To cut it out and then paraphrase it to mean something it doesn't is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
The rest of the sentence doesn't change the meaning, nor the point I was making?
Yes it does.