This is an asynchronous medium, and Mitchell_Porter is not obliged to address your inquiry anyway. It’s possible he hasn’t even seen your comment. Perhaps you could send him a PM, which would be harder for him to miss, and ask him if he’d have a look at your question without accusing him of being rude for not having done so already.
Edit: This comment also serves as your downvote explanation.
Not my enquiry specifically—he’s made no comments at all since posting the article. I think that if you make a top level post you do have an obligation to take part in the subsequent discussion.
If I’d written a post that’d gotten downvoted into the negative that decisively, I’d take a day or two off to avoid posting extremely defensive comments. I have no idea if that’s what Mitchell is doing, but while he probably should make some attempt to field comments on his post, chiding him for being untimely is not nice.
From the votes, it looks like people agree with you rather than me on this, which I take seriously. If anyone else wants to downvote me on this one, I’d slightly prefer they downvote the grandparent comment rather than my one above that, so I know it’s the chiding rather than the argument that’s getting downvoted.
This is an asynchronous medium, and Mitchell_Porter is not obliged to address your inquiry anyway. It’s possible he hasn’t even seen your comment. Perhaps you could send him a PM, which would be harder for him to miss, and ask him if he’d have a look at your question without accusing him of being rude for not having done so already.
Edit: This comment also serves as your downvote explanation.
Thanks, it’s good of you to explain.
Not my enquiry specifically—he’s made no comments at all since posting the article. I think that if you make a top level post you do have an obligation to take part in the subsequent discussion.
If I’d written a post that’d gotten downvoted into the negative that decisively, I’d take a day or two off to avoid posting extremely defensive comments. I have no idea if that’s what Mitchell is doing, but while he probably should make some attempt to field comments on his post, chiding him for being untimely is not nice.
From the votes, it looks like people agree with you rather than me on this, which I take seriously. If anyone else wants to downvote me on this one, I’d slightly prefer they downvote the grandparent comment rather than my one above that, so I know it’s the chiding rather than the argument that’s getting downvoted.