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Voting on every site is an emotional response, and bad news + convincing arguments against currently held beliefs produces a strong negative one.

I appreciate that you gave more insight into electricity markets today.

Yeah, and you can even consider yourself lucky if it's just downvotes, sometimes your messages just get flagged, like when I called renewables being a major reason for the Iberian blackout with citations from the official report.

TBH your first phrase is how every bad comment starts so I can understand reflex downvotes, BUT, your actual content after that is fantastic, and it took me a while to mentally go to "oh wait they make sense here"