The grandparent explains why Dai was confused about your authorial intent, and his comment at the top of the thread is sitting at 31 karma in 15 votes, suggesting that other readers found Dai’s engagement valuable. If that’s grossly negligent reading comprehension, then would you prefer to just not have readers? That is, it seems strange to be counting down from “smart commenters interpret my words in the way I want them to be interpreted” rather than up from “no one reads or comments on my work.”
suggesting that other readers found Dai’s engagement valuable
This may not be a valid inference, or your update may be too strong, given that my comment got a strong upvote early or immediately, which caused it to land in the Popular Comments section of the front page, where others may have further upvoted it in a decontextualized way.
It looks like I’m not actually banned yet, but will disengage for now to respect Tsvi’s wishes/feelings. Thought I should correct the record on the above first, as I’m probably the only person who could (due to seeing the strong upvote and the resulting position in Popular Comments).
I have banned you from my posts, but my guess is that you’re still allowed to post on existing comment threads with you involved, or something like. I’m happy for you to comment on anything that the LW interface allows you to comment on. [ETA: actually I hadn’t hit “submit” on the ban; I’ve done that now, so Wei Dai might no longer be able to reply on this post at all.]
Possibly I’ll unban you some time in the future (not that anyone cares too much, I presume). But like, this comment thread is kinda wild from my perspective. My current understanding is that you “went down some line of questioning” based on a misunderstanding, but did not state what your line of questioning was and also ignored anything in my responses that wasn’t furthering your “line of questioning” including stuff that was correcting your misunderstanding. Which is pretty anti-helpful.
The grandparent explains why Dai was confused about your authorial intent, and his comment at the top of the thread is sitting at 31 karma in 15 votes, suggesting that other readers found Dai’s engagement valuable. If that’s grossly negligent reading comprehension, then would you prefer to just not have readers? That is, it seems strange to be counting down from “smart commenters interpret my words in the way I want them to be interpreted” rather than up from “no one reads or comments on my work.”
This may not be a valid inference, or your update may be too strong, given that my comment got a strong upvote early or immediately, which caused it to land in the Popular Comments section of the front page, where others may have further upvoted it in a decontextualized way.
It looks like I’m not actually banned yet, but will disengage for now to respect Tsvi’s wishes/feelings. Thought I should correct the record on the above first, as I’m probably the only person who could (due to seeing the strong upvote and the resulting position in Popular Comments).
I have banned you from my posts, but my guess is that you’re still allowed to post on existing comment threads with you involved, or something like. I’m happy for you to comment on anything that the LW interface allows you to comment on. [ETA: actually I hadn’t hit “submit” on the ban; I’ve done that now, so Wei Dai might no longer be able to reply on this post at all.]
Possibly I’ll unban you some time in the future (not that anyone cares too much, I presume). But like, this comment thread is kinda wild from my perspective. My current understanding is that you “went down some line of questioning” based on a misunderstanding, but did not state what your line of questioning was and also ignored anything in my responses that wasn’t furthering your “line of questioning” including stuff that was correcting your misunderstanding. Which is pretty anti-helpful.
Did you read the whole comment thread?