Instead of thanking someone, you could compliment them, or at least comment on how uncommonly reasonable they are. Someone once wrote this in response to me saying I was wrong:
… You know, I think we may be having a polite discussion, informed by reasonable data and fact-checking, and with considered re-consideration of claims and opinions, ON TEH INTERWEBS!!! … I’m a little weirded out by this.
I didn’t find it patronizing; I liked the implied compliment that I was unusually polite and reasonable.
Instead of thanking someone, you could compliment them, or at least comment on how uncommonly reasonable they are. Someone once wrote this in response to me saying I was wrong:
I didn’t find it patronizing; I liked the implied compliment that I was unusually polite and reasonable.