Most of his comments are essentially saying “you are wrong”. Once he was right in saying that, many times he was wrong. He probably knows a lot of facts about many topics, and he expresses with very high certainty; unfortunately the quality of his comments does not match this certainty, and he seems very immune to feedback. Low karma just proves he is right.
He is very negative towards others. Almost all his comments contain something like: “Your work is wrong.” “I never said anything like this” “I never flamed anyone.” “spelled wrong” “I have no such delusions.” “it hasn’t done anything for me.” “it’s definitely going to do more harm than good.” “I already explained why it’s not possible.” “There is practically no chance” “It’s a misconception” “This idea is based on a whole range of confusions and misunderstandings” “just another example of people not understanding” It’s like his only point in discussions is to show that everyone else is wrong, but it’s often him who is wrong. Did he make some useful contribution? I don’t see any.
And then the—“You are trying to submit too fast. try again in %i minutes.” and “You do not have enough karma to downvote right now. You need 1 more point.”—just make me want to scream. (Though the fact that he does not have enough karma to downvote makes me happy. I guess he was going to downvote those who disagree with him. I am happy that LW karma system does not allow him to make dozen sockpuppet accounts and start a downvoting war.)
Maybe the guy is not having fun, maybe that’s just what he honestly is… but anyway his comments seem like optimized to create mental suffering in others, certainly in me. I have left websites where people like this became frequent. If this kind of behavior becomes tolerated on LW, I will either write some GreaseMonkey plugin that will remove all his comments from the page, or I will simply stop reading LW. In theory I am reading this site for information, not for positive emotion, but I am just a human… if this site will give me negative emotion too often, I will stop reading it.
I tried to give him the benefit of doubt, and answered his comment seriously, but now I feel it was totally not worth doing. This is my worst experience on LW so far. Though this mostly means that I did not have bad experiences on LW so far. :) But I prefer it to stay this way.
I tend to agree with you. I think I just have a higher threshold for banning. As such, I would like to see him actively ignore our suggestions before entirely dismissing him, which is not sure is something he’s done yet.
Most of his comments are essentially saying “you are wrong”. Once he was right in saying that, many times he was wrong. He probably knows a lot of facts about many topics, and he expresses with very high certainty; unfortunately the quality of his comments does not match this certainty, and he seems very immune to feedback. Low karma just proves he is right.
He is very negative towards others. Almost all his comments contain something like: “Your work is wrong.” “I never said anything like this” “I never flamed anyone.” “spelled wrong” “I have no such delusions.” “it hasn’t done anything for me.” “it’s definitely going to do more harm than good.” “I already explained why it’s not possible.” “There is practically no chance” “It’s a misconception” “This idea is based on a whole range of confusions and misunderstandings” “just another example of people not understanding” It’s like his only point in discussions is to show that everyone else is wrong, but it’s often him who is wrong. Did he make some useful contribution? I don’t see any.
And then the—“You are trying to submit too fast. try again in %i minutes.” and “You do not have enough karma to downvote right now. You need 1 more point.”—just make me want to scream. (Though the fact that he does not have enough karma to downvote makes me happy. I guess he was going to downvote those who disagree with him. I am happy that LW karma system does not allow him to make dozen sockpuppet accounts and start a downvoting war.)
Maybe the guy is not having fun, maybe that’s just what he honestly is… but anyway his comments seem like optimized to create mental suffering in others, certainly in me. I have left websites where people like this became frequent. If this kind of behavior becomes tolerated on LW, I will either write some GreaseMonkey plugin that will remove all his comments from the page, or I will simply stop reading LW. In theory I am reading this site for information, not for positive emotion, but I am just a human… if this site will give me negative emotion too often, I will stop reading it.
I tried to give him the benefit of doubt, and answered his comment seriously, but now I feel it was totally not worth doing. This is my worst experience on LW so far. Though this mostly means that I did not have bad experiences on LW so far. :) But I prefer it to stay this way.
I tend to agree with you. I think I just have a higher threshold for banning. As such, I would like to see him actively ignore our suggestions before entirely dismissing him, which is not sure is something he’s done yet.