It does make for higher quality discussions, especially when posters who command a larger audience are involved. Let’s also assume that Jonah knows his shizzle, and that if he wrote something which seems stupid at first glance, he may have merely used an unfortunate phraseology. Where’s the fun in shooting down the obvious targets, most readers can do so themselves. Rather skip to the subtle disagreements deep down, where true domina… where more refined and non-obvious counters may be revealed for the readers’ benefit.
Where’s the fun in shooting down the obvious targets, most readers can do so themselves.
As one of those readers I would prefer not to have to. I appreciate the effort others put into keeping the garden well tended and saving me the trouble of reading low quality material myself.
Eliezer’s reply is the kind of reply that I want to see more of. I strongly oppose shaming ‘requests’ used to discourage such replies.
It does make for higher quality discussions, especially when posters who command a larger audience are involved. Let’s also assume that Jonah knows his shizzle, and that if he wrote something which seems stupid at first glance, he may have merely used an unfortunate phraseology. Where’s the fun in shooting down the obvious targets, most readers can do so themselves. Rather skip to the subtle disagreements deep down, where true domina… where more refined and non-obvious counters may be revealed for the readers’ benefit.
As one of those readers I would prefer not to have to. I appreciate the effort others put into keeping the garden well tended and saving me the trouble of reading low quality material myself.
Eliezer’s reply is the kind of reply that I want to see more of. I strongly oppose shaming ‘requests’ used to discourage such replies.