I’d also like to say that a lot of Duncan’s conflict-oriented nature in the Duncan/Said moderation post and comments, as well as other posts where they interact was precisely because of the issues described in the section But why ban someone, can’t people just ignore Said?, in that it’s much less easy to ignore comments than a lot of people realize.
While it doesn’t explain all of the conflict, I do think it explains a non-trivial amount of the reason why Duncan has the tendency to get into conflict with Said, because there’s a social norm that criticism has to be responded to in order to make your post be correct.
I’d also like to say that a lot of Duncan’s conflict-oriented nature in the Duncan/Said moderation post and comments, as well as other posts where they interact was precisely because of the issues described in the section But why ban someone, can’t people just ignore Said?, in that it’s much less easy to ignore comments than a lot of people realize.
While it doesn’t explain all of the conflict, I do think it explains a non-trivial amount of the reason why Duncan has the tendency to get into conflict with Said, because there’s a social norm that criticism has to be responded to in order to make your post be correct.