There is an important discussion we could have had about this topic, but your comment is absolutely not the way to do it. You just wrote “I despise you” in many words.
That may be the case. But even Lukeprog preferred to be given feedback in a nice wrapping, because after all we are still primates and will appreciate it more.
If it’s left to a random person to say something, what they say might just fall short of the idealized version of the discussion you never actually started. And he’s been selling here for a year and a half.
And if you’re also Villiam_Bur, you’ve been here since his beginning, when you chewed somebody out and deleted their account for (I assume, since the comment is deleted, but the context suggests it) accusing him of buying upvotes off some site. I’ll dryly observe that some priors really should have been updated based on that very uncommon accusation.
What you described feels kinda familiar, but my memory refuses to bring more details now. Sorry.
So, as you already know, I opened the discussion explicitly.
(Yes, I am Viliam Bur. Recently I decided to be a bit more careful about using my name online; no big security, just a little trivial inconvenience. The date of changing the username is more or less the date when I de facto stopped being a moderator.)
There is an important discussion we could have had about this topic, but your comment is absolutely not the way to do it. You just wrote “I despise you” in many words.
So what? LW isn’t a “safe space”.
That may be the case. But even Lukeprog preferred to be given feedback in a nice wrapping, because after all we are still primates and will appreciate it more.
Maybe my standards are skewed, but nobody called anyone a fucking moron or expressed a desire to see him die in a fire.
If it’s left to a random person to say something, what they say might just fall short of the idealized version of the discussion you never actually started. And he’s been selling here for a year and a half.
And if you’re also Villiam_Bur, you’ve been here since his beginning, when you chewed somebody out and deleted their account for (I assume, since the comment is deleted, but the context suggests it) accusing him of buying upvotes off some site. I’ll dryly observe that some priors really should have been updated based on that very uncommon accusation.
What you described feels kinda familiar, but my memory refuses to bring more details now. Sorry.
So, as you already know, I opened the discussion explicitly.
(Yes, I am Viliam Bur. Recently I decided to be a bit more careful about using my name online; no big security, just a little trivial inconvenience. The date of changing the username is more or less the date when I de facto stopped being a moderator.)