I don’t really believe in role models. Anyway, I wasn’t intending to point out any person’s shortcomings; I was agreeing with VipulNaik’s misgivings about the technique.
(To be more concrete, “doing X may get you ignored as a blowhard” is a criticism of doing-X, not a criticism of someone who either does X or contemplates doing X.)
Sure, one might come across as a blowhard. But one might also come across as someone who can be persuaded by evidence to change his mind without a lot of kicking and screaming.
This is really about reputation management in an online community, a complicated topic.
Feel free to point out to those some other people their shortcomings, then. I hope you don’t think I’m a role model, do you now? X-)
I don’t really believe in role models. Anyway, I wasn’t intending to point out any person’s shortcomings; I was agreeing with VipulNaik’s misgivings about the technique.
(To be more concrete, “doing X may get you ignored as a blowhard” is a criticism of doing-X, not a criticism of someone who either does X or contemplates doing X.)
Sure, one might come across as a blowhard. But one might also come across as someone who can be persuaded by evidence to change his mind without a lot of kicking and screaming.
This is really about reputation management in an online community, a complicated topic.