Unwarranted troll accusations can easily backfire. I’m simply asking you to taboo your words. Asking you to define the concepts you use precisely so as to minimize the chance of misunderstanding is not a form of trolling by any of the standard definitions of the term. Refusing to define them, however, can be said to be intellectually lazy at best.
In the spirit of cooperation (and a show of good faith), you might try adding guesses as to what the other person might mean, that it might be easier to see what you are confused about.
I honestly don’t know what knb means by aspergery. I’ve never met anyone who was diagonsed with aspergers. I find the fictional examples I’ve been told “looked like aspergers” to be vague and not really good evidence to extrapolate from, being very different from each other. I also don’t have a clear idea of what they mean by “nerd”.
On TVTropes, we define “geek” as someone with specialized interests, and “nerd” as someone with poor social skills. A nerd who isn’t a even a geek is Napoleon Dynamite. A geek who isn’t a nerd is Steve Jobs (or president Bartlet from The West Wing). But I hear that our definition is not universal, and that there’s a fair share of controversy.
I think I’m justified in asking knb to specify what he means by those words, given that there seems to be a lack of consensus or a vague consensus, if only for the purpose of this discussion.
Yes, I don’t know that I’d call it trollish behavior, but I also don’t appreciate comments that give you nothing to work with.
Define this. Taboo that. Stating a request in the form of a command is rather irritating, particularly when it’s a request for effort while you’re showing none yourself, and doing nothing to reduce the effort required.
Aspergery.
Define aspergery.
You are a troll.
Unwarranted troll accusations can easily backfire. I’m simply asking you to taboo your words. Asking you to define the concepts you use precisely so as to minimize the chance of misunderstanding is not a form of trolling by any of the standard definitions of the term. Refusing to define them, however, can be said to be intellectually lazy at best.
In the spirit of cooperation (and a show of good faith), you might try adding guesses as to what the other person might mean, that it might be easier to see what you are confused about.
I honestly don’t know what knb means by aspergery. I’ve never met anyone who was diagonsed with aspergers. I find the fictional examples I’ve been told “looked like aspergers” to be vague and not really good evidence to extrapolate from, being very different from each other. I also don’t have a clear idea of what they mean by “nerd”.
On TVTropes, we define “geek” as someone with specialized interests, and “nerd” as someone with poor social skills. A nerd who isn’t a even a geek is Napoleon Dynamite. A geek who isn’t a nerd is Steve Jobs (or president Bartlet from The West Wing). But I hear that our definition is not universal, and that there’s a fair share of controversy.
I think I’m justified in asking knb to specify what he means by those words, given that there seems to be a lack of consensus or a vague consensus, if only for the purpose of this discussion.
Yes, I don’t know that I’d call it trollish behavior, but I also don’t appreciate comments that give you nothing to work with.
Define this. Taboo that. Stating a request in the form of a command is rather irritating, particularly when it’s a request for effort while you’re showing none yourself, and doing nothing to reduce the effort required.