Perhaps I wasn’t clear: I don’t think you are, or should be, forbidden to mention your opinions of / attitude to CFAR if you aren’t willing to make a whole post explaining them. That would be crazy.
What I do think (which seems to me much less crazy) is this: 1. If, as you say three comments upthread from here, you feel that you have an obligation to say bad things about CFAR in public so that LW2 doesn’t become a pro-CFAR echo chamber, then what you’ve done here is not a very effective way of doing it, and writing something more substantial would be much more effective. And: 2. Dropping boo-to-CFAR asides into discussions of something else is likely to do more harm than good (even conditional on CFAR being bad in whatever ways you consider it bad; in fact, probably more so if it is) because its most likely effect is to make fans of CFAR defensive, people who dislike CFAR gloaty, and people who frankly don’t care much about CFAR annoyed at having what seem like political rivalries injected into otherwise-interesting discussions.
Of course, what’s ended up happening is that there’s been a ton of discussion and you may end up expending as much effort as if you’d written a whole post about why you are unimpressed by CFAR, but without the actual benefits of having done so. For the avoidance of doubt, that wasn’t my intention, and I doubt it was anyone else’s either, but it’s not exactly a surprising outcome either; gratuitously inflammatory asides tend to have such consequences...
Perhaps I wasn’t clear: I don’t think you are, or should be, forbidden to mention your opinions of / attitude to CFAR if you aren’t willing to make a whole post explaining them. That would be crazy.
What I do think (which seems to me much less crazy) is this: 1. If, as you say three comments upthread from here, you feel that you have an obligation to say bad things about CFAR in public so that LW2 doesn’t become a pro-CFAR echo chamber, then what you’ve done here is not a very effective way of doing it, and writing something more substantial would be much more effective. And: 2. Dropping boo-to-CFAR asides into discussions of something else is likely to do more harm than good (even conditional on CFAR being bad in whatever ways you consider it bad; in fact, probably more so if it is) because its most likely effect is to make fans of CFAR defensive, people who dislike CFAR gloaty, and people who frankly don’t care much about CFAR annoyed at having what seem like political rivalries injected into otherwise-interesting discussions.
Of course, what’s ended up happening is that there’s been a ton of discussion and you may end up expending as much effort as if you’d written a whole post about why you are unimpressed by CFAR, but without the actual benefits of having done so. For the avoidance of doubt, that wasn’t my intention, and I doubt it was anyone else’s either, but it’s not exactly a surprising outcome either; gratuitously inflammatory asides tend to have such consequences...