I have a hard time imagining someone writing this without subtweeting. Feels like classic subtweeting to me, especially “I think this is pretty obvious”. Like, it’s a trivially true point, all the debate is in the applicability/relevance to the situation. I don’t see any point in it except the classic subterfuge of lowering the status of something in a way that’s hard for the thing to defend itself against.
My standard refrain is that open aggression is better than passive aggression. The latter makes it hard to trust things / intentions, and makes people more paranoid and think that people are semi-covertly coordinating to lower their status around them all the time. For instance, and to be clear this is not the current state, but it would not be good for the health of LW for people to regularly see people discussing “obvious” points in shortform and ranting about people not getting them, and later find out it was a criticism of them about a post that they didn’t think would be subject to that criticism!
I have a hard time imagining someone writing this without subtweeting. Feels like classic subtweeting to me, especially “I think this is pretty obvious”. Like, it’s a trivially true point, all the debate is in the applicability/relevance to the situation. I don’t see any point in it except the classic subterfuge of lowering the status of something in a way that’s hard for the thing to defend itself against.
My standard refrain is that open aggression is better than passive aggression. The latter makes it hard to trust things / intentions, and makes people more paranoid and think that people are semi-covertly coordinating to lower their status around them all the time. For instance, and to be clear this is not the current state, but it would not be good for the health of LW for people to regularly see people discussing “obvious” points in shortform and ranting about people not getting them, and later find out it was a criticism of them about a post that they didn’t think would be subject to that criticism!