I’ve never heard of metatroll either, but I won’t hold that against them :)
I believe you mean to say that you don’t like the tone of the original post in that it feels “accusatory”. I realise I failed to make it clear that I picked up on that when I made my response. I agree it comes across as accusatory. Especially as 3 levels leading to “I have never heard of you”. I am glad you said:
I won’t hold that against them :)
Keeping a welcoming community is very important to us.
I was white-knighting for the weird suns. See, I haven’t read Chapman. I just assumed you were here to steal their work by annexing it to your own philosophical brand of “meta-rationality”. I didn’t know that was one of his buzzwords.
Of course you have a right to be a Chapmanite; even that version of postrational subculture is surely better than the subrational postculture that surrounds it. But do not imagine for a moment that his is the only way to go meta.
the tone of my response was meant to defuse whatever tension was the cause of the accusatory tone in the first place.
Absolutely, I see that in the sense of the idea of, “leave things unsaid” (from that specific culture). if I were in the position of metatroll, I would take it as a perceived smugness (leading downhill into more smugness in response), not in the lighthearted “don’t talk about the elephant in the room” kind of way that you intended it.
Metatroll started it, you played with it instead of either letting it go or responding to it directly. I contributed by ignoring it. Do continue to hang around and share your ideas with us.
FWLIW, I took “I’ve never heard of metatroll either, but I won’t hold that against them :)” as intended to have a net-deëscalatory effect, even if it didn’t seem to be entirely subtext-free. (and this combination of attributes is not something I have a problem with)
I believe you mean to say that you don’t like the tone of the original post in that it feels “accusatory”. I realise I failed to make it clear that I picked up on that when I made my response. I agree it comes across as accusatory. Especially as 3 levels leading to “I have never heard of you”. I am glad you said:
Keeping a welcoming community is very important to us.
I was white-knighting for the weird suns. See, I haven’t read Chapman. I just assumed you were here to steal their work by annexing it to your own philosophical brand of “meta-rationality”. I didn’t know that was one of his buzzwords.
Of course you have a right to be a Chapmanite; even that version of postrational subculture is surely better than the subrational postculture that surrounds it. But do not imagine for a moment that his is the only way to go meta.
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Absolutely, I see that in the sense of the idea of, “leave things unsaid” (from that specific culture). if I were in the position of metatroll, I would take it as a perceived smugness (leading downhill into more smugness in response), not in the lighthearted “don’t talk about the elephant in the room” kind of way that you intended it.
Metatroll started it, you played with it instead of either letting it go or responding to it directly. I contributed by ignoring it. Do continue to hang around and share your ideas with us.
FWLIW, I took “I’ve never heard of metatroll either, but I won’t hold that against them :)” as intended to have a net-deëscalatory effect, even if it didn’t seem to be entirely subtext-free. (and this combination of attributes is not something I have a problem with)
I have nothing to add, it just delights me to see that someone out there is still using the diaeresis.