here would be a perfectly suitable place to bring up failures of her advice, if such failures actually existed.
Please reconcile your obvious advice with jimrandomh’s equally-obvious but opposite advice given here. Specifically, on the issue of whether I should have made a comment in this discussion that implicitly requests a response from Alicorn.
Moderators: please withdraw your upvotes from the parent until you can come up with a course of action that would have satisfied both kodos96 and jimrandomh’s constraints; otherwise, you’re venturing deep into politicsland.
Please reconcile your obvious advice with jimrandomh’s equally-obvious but opposite advice given here. Specifically, on the issue of whether I should have made a comment in this discussion that implicitly requests a response from Alicorn.
This is a fair point. Following jimrandomh’s advice would imply never criticizing Alicorn’s comments or posts. The letter of your “agreement” with Alicorn doesn’t require that, but jimrandomh’s advice does. I’ve upvoted this comment of yours and removed my upvote from jimrandomh’s. (I hadn’t upvoted kodos96′s.)
Merely being you and criticizing Alicorn ought not to be counted as pestering by this community. (Of course, certain kinds of criticism can count as pestering. And context, such as the poster’s identity, does count.)
Please reconcile your obvious advice with jimrandomh’s
My understanding of your agreement with Alicorn was that you were allowed to comment on each other’s top level posts, just not address each other directly. It may be that my understanding is incorrect (I don’t really care). The important part of what I said was the conditional, “if such failures actually existed.” If you’re pulling your claims of hypocrisy out of your ass, then there is no appropriate place for them.
Moderators: please withdraw your upvotes from the parent
My understanding of your agreement with Alicorn was that you were allowed to comment on each other’s top level posts, just not address each other directly. It may be that my understanding is incorrect (I don’t really care).
Well, it is indeed incorrect. The agreement’s not supposed to make sense—I found out the hard way what Alicorn is demanding.
The important part of what I said was the conditional, “if such failures actually existed.” If you’re pulling your claims of hypocrisy out of your ass, then there is no appropriate place for them.
Well, that’s subjective. If I have a good-faith suspicion of Alicorn not following this advice when in critical cases where it actually matters, surely, it obviously belongs here. Except that to jimrandomh, it obviously does. Which of these two contradictory obvious positions is right? And what inference should I draw from this kafkaesqueness?
If I have a good-faith suspicion of Alicorn not following this advice
… I don’t know how many more ways we can rephrase this till you get it: her advice is solely about how, not when or whether, to go about liking someone. So even if everything you’re saying is absolutely true, it does not refute the claims in the article.
Which of these two contradictory obvious positions is right?
Our positions aren’t contradictory. His is that you should refrain from commenting at all. Mine is that as long as you’re making personal accusations irrelevant to the OP, you should refrain from commenting. Since, in this case, you’re making personal accusations irrelevant to the OP, both our positions recommend the same course of action.
Please reconcile your obvious advice with jimrandomh’s equally-obvious but opposite advice given here. Specifically, on the issue of whether I should have made a comment in this discussion that implicitly requests a response from Alicorn.
Moderators: please withdraw your upvotes from the parent until you can come up with a course of action that would have satisfied both kodos96 and jimrandomh’s constraints; otherwise, you’re venturing deep into politicsland.
This is a fair point. Following jimrandomh’s advice would imply never criticizing Alicorn’s comments or posts. The letter of your “agreement” with Alicorn doesn’t require that, but jimrandomh’s advice does. I’ve upvoted this comment of yours and removed my upvote from jimrandomh’s. (I hadn’t upvoted kodos96′s.)
Merely being you and criticizing Alicorn ought not to be counted as pestering by this community. (Of course, certain kinds of criticism can count as pestering. And context, such as the poster’s identity, does count.)
My understanding of your agreement with Alicorn was that you were allowed to comment on each other’s top level posts, just not address each other directly. It may be that my understanding is incorrect (I don’t really care). The important part of what I said was the conditional, “if such failures actually existed.” If you’re pulling your claims of hypocrisy out of your ass, then there is no appropriate place for them.
And how’s that working out for you?
Well, it is indeed incorrect. The agreement’s not supposed to make sense—I found out the hard way what Alicorn is demanding.
Well, that’s subjective. If I have a good-faith suspicion of Alicorn not following this advice when in critical cases where it actually matters, surely, it obviously belongs here. Except that to jimrandomh, it obviously does. Which of these two contradictory obvious positions is right? And what inference should I draw from this kafkaesqueness?
… I don’t know how many more ways we can rephrase this till you get it: her advice is solely about how, not when or whether, to go about liking someone. So even if everything you’re saying is absolutely true, it does not refute the claims in the article.
Our positions aren’t contradictory. His is that you should refrain from commenting at all. Mine is that as long as you’re making personal accusations irrelevant to the OP, you should refrain from commenting. Since, in this case, you’re making personal accusations irrelevant to the OP, both our positions recommend the same course of action.