You’re right; that argument there was invalid. I have removed it and replaced it with a valid argument for the same conclusion: “Since the impression people got of speakers’ positions disagreed with what they would have said their positions were, that impression was false.”
It’s interesting how this article is acting as a testbed for the norm it proposes. It’ll be interesting to see whether it carries over to other threads, and how much of an effect it has. For a proper test, we’ll have to see how people respond to posts that they fully disagree with; if people just habitually start their posts with “I agree with your conclusion, however”, then eventually someone will post something like “I agree with your conclusion, however, I disagree with your conclusion”.
You’re right; that argument there was invalid. I have removed it and replaced it with a valid argument for the same conclusion: “Since the impression people got of speakers’ positions disagreed with what they would have said their positions were, that impression was false.”
It’s interesting how this article is acting as a testbed for the norm it proposes. It’ll be interesting to see whether it carries over to other threads, and how much of an effect it has. For a proper test, we’ll have to see how people respond to posts that they fully disagree with; if people just habitually start their posts with “I agree with your conclusion, however”, then eventually someone will post something like “I agree with your conclusion, however, I disagree with your conclusion”.