&gt; It&#x27;s still better than not bothering to take a stance, right?<p>No. It just makes the comments less valuable. I come to this site because of the diversity of insight and high quality of posts. No one is tallying the stances and declaring a &quot;winner&quot;.<p>100,000 anti-vaxxer posts aren&#x27;t going to make me an anti-vaxxer. One post that goes into the details of the molecular mechanisms that show how the chemicals in vaccines cause autism <i>might</i> (not that I expect it to happen, since it&#x27;s baloney, but I hope you take my point).