(You see why I’m trying to be succinct: writing it up in more detail is too long and no fun. I’ve been busy for the last days, and replied to other comments that felt less like work, but not this one.)
I suspect that you would find yourself with even less tedious work to do if you refrained from making cryptic comments in the first place. That way, neither you nor your victims has to work at transforming what you write into something that can be understood.
I suspect that you would find yourself with even less tedious work to do if you refrained from making cryptic comments in the first place.
I like commenting the way I do, it’s not tedious.
That way, neither you nor your victims has to work at transforming what you write into something that can be understood.
Since some people will be able to understand what I wrote, even when it’s not the person I reply to, some amount of good can come out of it. Also, the general policy of ignoring everything I write allows to avoid the harm completely.
As a meta remark, your attitude expressed in the parent comment seems to be in conflict with attitude expressed in this comment. Which one more accurately reflects your views? Have they changed since then? From the past comment:
A good observation. My calling Vladimir a poor communicator is an instance of mind-projection. He is not objectively poor at communicating—only poor at communicating with me.
Both reflect my views. Why do you think there is a conflict?
Because the recent comment assumes that one of the relevant consequences of me not writing comments would be relief of victimized people that read my comments, while if we assume that there are also people not included in the group, the consequence of them not benefiting from my comments would balance out the consequence you pointed out, making it filtered evidence and hence not worth mentioning on its own. If you won’t use filtered evidence this way, it follows that your recent comment assumes this non-victimized group to be insignificant, while the earlier comment didn’t. (No rhetorical questions in this thread.)
I suspect that you would find yourself with even less tedious work to do if you refrained from making cryptic comments in the first place. That way, neither you nor your victims has to work at transforming what you write into something that can be understood.
I like commenting the way I do, it’s not tedious.
Since some people will be able to understand what I wrote, even when it’s not the person I reply to, some amount of good can come out of it. Also, the general policy of ignoring everything I write allows to avoid the harm completely.
As a meta remark, your attitude expressed in the parent comment seems to be in conflict with attitude expressed in this comment. Which one more accurately reflects your views? Have they changed since then? From the past comment:
Both reflect my views. Why do you think there is a conflict? I wrote:
It seems to me that this advice is good, even if you choose to operationalize the word ‘cryptic’ to mean ‘comments directed at Perplexed’.
Writing not tedious, so advice not good.
Because the recent comment assumes that one of the relevant consequences of me not writing comments would be relief of victimized people that read my comments, while if we assume that there are also people not included in the group, the consequence of them not benefiting from my comments would balance out the consequence you pointed out, making it filtered evidence and hence not worth mentioning on its own. If you won’t use filtered evidence this way, it follows that your recent comment assumes this non-victimized group to be insignificant, while the earlier comment didn’t. (No rhetorical questions in this thread.)