I disagree-voted this comment [edit: reversed now because I misread the comment I’m replying to] because the sort of pushback Said typically gives doesn’t remind me of “the good old days” (I think that’s a separate thing), but I want to flag that, as someone who’s had negative reactions to Said’s commenting style in the past, I feel like the past two years or so, I noticed several times where I thought he left valuable comments or criticism that felt on point, and I have noticed a lot less (possibly zero) instances of “omg this feels uncharitable and nitpicky/deliberately playing dense.” So, for my part at least, I no longer consider myself as having strong opinions on this topic.
(Note that I haven’t read the recent threads with Gordon Seidoh Worley, so this shouldn’t be interpreted as me taking a side on that.)
Your interpretation seems like the opposite of sunwillrise’s remark about Said?
… I do suspect some of the moderator pushback to Said comes from the (IMO correct) observation that… LW is just missing something, something that Said contributed, at least a bit, to pushing away in the aggregate (even if any one given action of his was by itself worthwhile from a cost/benefit perspective). Something that every single one of these authors used to provide in the past…
I disagree-voted this comment [edit: reversed now because I misread the comment I’m replying to] because the sort of pushback Said typically gives doesn’t remind me of “the good old days” (I think that’s a separate thing), but I want to flag that, as someone who’s had negative reactions to Said’s commenting style in the past, I feel like the past two years or so, I noticed several times where I thought he left valuable comments or criticism that felt on point, and I have noticed a lot less (possibly zero) instances of “omg this feels uncharitable and nitpicky/deliberately playing dense.” So, for my part at least, I no longer consider myself as having strong opinions on this topic.
(Note that I haven’t read the recent threads with Gordon Seidoh Worley, so this shouldn’t be interpreted as me taking a side on that.)
Your interpretation seems like the opposite of sunwillrise’s remark about Said?
Oh, thanks! Yeah, I should reverse my vote, then. I got confused by the sentence structure (and commenting before my morning coffee).