Your replies here have been excellent and I would love to see similar comments in a thread about QM or physics. In this case, however, you are rewarding “sniping” behavior by giving the sniper a soapbox from which to shout about his context-irrelevant pet issue. That isn’t a desirable result for me.
Yeah, that’s fair. It’s always a bit of a judgment call when to shape behavior vs when to extinguish it, but I suspect that were I not involved in the thread myself I would agree unreservedly that the thread was counterproductive. Point taken; tapping out.
Your replies here have been excellent and I would love to see similar comments in a thread about QM or physics. In this case, however, you are rewarding “sniping” behavior by giving the sniper a soapbox from which to shout about his context-irrelevant pet issue. That isn’t a desirable result for me.
Yeah, that’s fair. It’s always a bit of a judgment call when to shape behavior vs when to extinguish it, but I suspect that were I not involved in the thread myself I would agree unreservedly that the thread was counterproductive. Point taken; tapping out.