Oh, I totally didn’t mean it in an adversarial tone, only in a playful tone. I am generally in favor of people experimenting with weird content formats, I just had an unusually strong emotional reaction to this one, which seemed good to share without trying to imply any kind of judgement.
Can do a more detailed introspective pass later, just seemed good to clear up the tone.
(Potential reason for confusion: “don’t endorse it” in habryka’s first comment could be interpreted as not endorsing “this comment”, when habryka actually said he didn’t endorse his emotional reaction to the comment.)
I am quite uncertain but have an intuition that there should be an expectation of more justification accompanying stronger negative aversions (and “hate” is about as strong as it gets).
(Naturally not everything has to be fully justified, that’s an unbearable demand which will stifle lots of important discourse. This is rather a point about the degree to which different things should be, and how communities should make an unfortunate trade-off to avoid Moloch when communicating aversions.)
Oh, I totally didn’t mean it in an adversarial tone, only in a playful tone. I am generally in favor of people experimenting with weird content formats, I just had an unusually strong emotional reaction to this one, which seemed good to share without trying to imply any kind of judgement.
Can do a more detailed introspective pass later, just seemed good to clear up the tone.
(Potential reason for confusion: “don’t endorse it” in habryka’s first comment could be interpreted as not endorsing “this comment”, when habryka actually said he didn’t endorse his emotional reaction to the comment.)
Oh, that would make a bunch of sense. Yes, the “it” was referring to my emotional reaction, not the comment.
Ah! I read “it” as the comment. That does change my mind about how adversarial it was.
I am quite uncertain but have an intuition that there should be an expectation of more justification accompanying stronger negative aversions (and “hate” is about as strong as it gets).
(Naturally not everything has to be fully justified, that’s an unbearable demand which will stifle lots of important discourse. This is rather a point about the degree to which different things should be, and how communities should make an unfortunate trade-off to avoid Moloch when communicating aversions.)