... then you have the distillation of conversation and comments like #1246207¹, partially quoted below:

Isn't this sort of yearning unhealthy? In the author's mind, comparison occurs between the typical comment, and the pinnacle of dozens if not hundreds; and fatigue of ricing each line of markdown is all too likely to result in fewer stackers who produce any verbal content. While the site's oversimplified economics happily accept any supermajority of zaps from silent readers, there must be some personability, some tolerance of the drunkard, the dyslexic, the random LOL