Just by reading your comment before the Edits, I thought that you’re probably correct, Harry seems confused about his dark side and that (to me) also seems to be Bayesian evidence for Harry being at least partially a horcrux. So to me, it seems like you’re qualitatively right, although the importance of this piece of evidence can be discussed about. The downvotes could simply be bad luck, and I’d have expected this comment to go back at zero and beyond in a few hours.
However, posing yourself as a victim of this sites supposed groupthinking and attacking us using sarcasm makes things worse. I’m not surprised that in this form, the comment got to −6 points. These sorts of attacks (posing oneself as the victim and then vigorously attacking) are neither liked here nor in most other places, I’m afraid.
I agree that the victim model sucks. I was actively trying to distance myself from it through harsh and angry rhetoric but failed. Probably the sarcasm was the mistake that made me seem victim like. What should I do to distance myself further, since I’ve apparently failed? No one wants to deal with a victim which is definitely justified. At the same time, I want to complain.
My response should be viewed in context of multiple high numbers negative reputations I received on multiple posts in different discussion threads. I wouldn’t have responded like that to one single instance. But I had multiple instances where good posts, just like the one above, received multiple negative reputations. I wanted to complain about that. It seems like as soon as I opposed pendanterrific on the other thread everyone started smashing on everything I said, which is stupid and justifies a response on my part.
The specific above response was flawed, although I still strongly defend its sentiment. I don’t want to apologize, exactly, because I feel that being angry with the hordes of negative reputation is justified. At the same time I wish that it had been phrased differently, and that I had more specifically tailored my response to address the people swarming me with bad karma.
I apologize for that response to all people on LessWrong who did not downvote my good comments, such as (presumably) you. I do not and will not apologize to the people who downvoted my comments without any real justification, those guys are assholes. I will also not apologize to the people who are willfully misunderstanding me or who are attacking every statement I make.
Just by reading your comment before the Edits, I thought that you’re probably correct, Harry seems confused about his dark side and that (to me) also seems to be Bayesian evidence for Harry being at least partially a horcrux. So to me, it seems like you’re qualitatively right, although the importance of this piece of evidence can be discussed about. The downvotes could simply be bad luck, and I’d have expected this comment to go back at zero and beyond in a few hours.
However, posing yourself as a victim of this sites supposed groupthinking and attacking us using sarcasm makes things worse. I’m not surprised that in this form, the comment got to −6 points. These sorts of attacks (posing oneself as the victim and then vigorously attacking) are neither liked here nor in most other places, I’m afraid.
I agree that the victim model sucks. I was actively trying to distance myself from it through harsh and angry rhetoric but failed. Probably the sarcasm was the mistake that made me seem victim like. What should I do to distance myself further, since I’ve apparently failed? No one wants to deal with a victim which is definitely justified. At the same time, I want to complain.
My response should be viewed in context of multiple high numbers negative reputations I received on multiple posts in different discussion threads. I wouldn’t have responded like that to one single instance. But I had multiple instances where good posts, just like the one above, received multiple negative reputations. I wanted to complain about that. It seems like as soon as I opposed pendanterrific on the other thread everyone started smashing on everything I said, which is stupid and justifies a response on my part.
The specific above response was flawed, although I still strongly defend its sentiment. I don’t want to apologize, exactly, because I feel that being angry with the hordes of negative reputation is justified. At the same time I wish that it had been phrased differently, and that I had more specifically tailored my response to address the people swarming me with bad karma.
I apologize for that response to all people on LessWrong who did not downvote my good comments, such as (presumably) you. I do not and will not apologize to the people who downvoted my comments without any real justification, those guys are assholes. I will also not apologize to the people who are willfully misunderstanding me or who are attacking every statement I make.