What do you define as a shitty comment though? I mean in a thread a couple of days ago there was some attacking Gillian Triggs based on 30 years ago handing over their 6 month old daughter to foster parents because they couldn't give the appropriate amount of care to someone with chromosomal disorder.

That individual started arguing about how much this is a shitty left wing sub because he was downvoted for what (in my own opinion) is a disgusting and vindictive attack on the personal life of someone they solely see as a political opponent. On one hand he would claim it's a legitimate political opinion being downvoted based on the subreddit being a left wing circlejerk, on the other hand I think you'd find most of this subreddit would find it a disgusting comment regardless of their political persuasion.

The point I'm trying to get to is that whilst I agree this subreddit is completely and utterly biased to a left wing point of view, a lot of the people who have attempted to post here with right wing opinions are a lot of the time posting what they see to be legitimate political comment, whilst the rest of the subreddit will see it completely differently and downvote it based on the opinion that he's a nutcase. The people who get downvoted will then go and join you on /r/circlejerkaustralia and join in the bitching about how biased this subreddit is and then spend the next few months bitching about this subreddit whenever they get the chance.

The point is that a lot of the people I see bitching about this place being a left wing circle jerk are also the same people who make really shitty comments and I'm not entirely convinced that those people will ever be welcomed here, but are the most vocal about how this subreddit needs to change to accommodate different opinoins.

On another note though, I find your posting civil and polite most of the time, but that's from my experience, far from the norm.

[edit] and yeah I know it's an older thread, but I saw it was re-stickied this morning.