Well, in your case, you’ve actually vidchatted with me, seen the actual, breathing human on the other side, found me to be more sociable than you expected
… and still didn’t feel any more inclined to clean up the misrepresentations you made of me that you were aware of :-(
I’ve gone back and edited the comment in question, and I apologize for not having done so earlier. (And, while this doesn’t really justify my not having edited it earlier—the reason I didn’t edit it then was that I still hadn’t fully understood what happened. Revisiting it now, I noticed what I missed the last time around—namely, a full enumeration of the people who could’ve prevented the situation from blowing up in the first place, including myself.) I’m not sure whether linking to or summarizing that thread would be a net positive or negative, so I won’t, but you can if you think making my edit visible is worth the chance that it derails the current conversation here.
You still haven’t corrected the critical error I’m referring to. For the fifth (yes, really fifth) time: you claimed that Alicorn (reasonably) asked me not to pester her. In reality, it was the unreasonable request that I not post comments nested under hers, no matter how relevant to the discussion they are, no matter how appropriate it is that my comment go there, no matter how impersonal the remark is.
I corrected you within minutes of the error. Others who noticed did the same. I corrected you when you made it again. I pointed it out to you in skype chat. Then, after you talked to me in a vidchat, you still did nothing to correct that misinterpretation.
Now, two months later, having rung the beat-down-Silas bell as loud as you can, while you got significant karma from your noble teaching of the obvious to me, while the comment with the error remains at +20, while the numerous readers are left with the misinformation you fed them
… you still haven’t corrected it. You still haven’t done anything to unring that bell.
What, exactly, am I supposed to make of this? You can actually see the breathing human on the other side, see his actual feelings, have an actual conversation, and still feel good about yourself.
This, folks, is why I wonder about the empathic disconnect.
(Edit: And not that it matters to someone of your strong moral character, but the very reason I phrased the earlier comment in the way you objected to is that another equally-authoritative poster told me that would be the appropriate way to do it—which you didn’t mention then, or edit it to mention now.)
I’ve gone back and edited again. I’d forgotten how much weight you put on that detail; it seemed strange to me at the time, but since it was part of the original feedback loop, I guess I can see why now—you’d already had lots of time to get angry over that particular detail, and I went and rounded it off to something different.
Silas, not having corrected that really wasn’t intended as a slight, although I see now that you took it that way. At the time, I interpreted it you as trying to deflect the conversation into (what I saw as) a minor detail. (And yes, you did try to tell me it wasn’t minor; I brushed it off as motivated cognition, without properly considering the ramifications).
Silas, not having corrected that really wasn’t intended as a slight, although I see now that you took it that way. At the time, I interpreted it you as trying to deflect the conversation into (what I saw as) a minor detail. (And yes, you did try to tell me it wasn’t minor; I brushed it off as motivated cognition, without properly considering the ramifications).
This is an example of what I meant when I say that many intellectual issues aren’t as obvious as stoplights.
Send me a PM if you have a diagnosis. I don’t think I’ve made general remarks on the mismatch anywhere, though I have pointed out when people, like jimrandomh, knowingly perpetuate lies about me after being repeatedly corrected.
Well, in your case, you’ve actually vidchatted with me, seen the actual, breathing human on the other side, found me to be more sociable than you expected
… and still didn’t feel any more inclined to clean up the misrepresentations you made of me that you were aware of :-(
I’ve gone back and edited the comment in question, and I apologize for not having done so earlier. (And, while this doesn’t really justify my not having edited it earlier—the reason I didn’t edit it then was that I still hadn’t fully understood what happened. Revisiting it now, I noticed what I missed the last time around—namely, a full enumeration of the people who could’ve prevented the situation from blowing up in the first place, including myself.) I’m not sure whether linking to or summarizing that thread would be a net positive or negative, so I won’t, but you can if you think making my edit visible is worth the chance that it derails the current conversation here.
You still haven’t corrected the critical error I’m referring to. For the fifth (yes, really fifth) time: you claimed that Alicorn (reasonably) asked me not to pester her. In reality, it was the unreasonable request that I not post comments nested under hers, no matter how relevant to the discussion they are, no matter how appropriate it is that my comment go there, no matter how impersonal the remark is.
I corrected you within minutes of the error. Others who noticed did the same. I corrected you when you made it again. I pointed it out to you in skype chat. Then, after you talked to me in a vidchat, you still did nothing to correct that misinterpretation.
Now, two months later, having rung the beat-down-Silas bell as loud as you can, while you got significant karma from your noble teaching of the obvious to me, while the comment with the error remains at +20, while the numerous readers are left with the misinformation you fed them
… you still haven’t corrected it. You still haven’t done anything to unring that bell.
What, exactly, am I supposed to make of this? You can actually see the breathing human on the other side, see his actual feelings, have an actual conversation, and still feel good about yourself.
This, folks, is why I wonder about the empathic disconnect.
(Edit: And not that it matters to someone of your strong moral character, but the very reason I phrased the earlier comment in the way you objected to is that another equally-authoritative poster told me that would be the appropriate way to do it—which you didn’t mention then, or edit it to mention now.)
I’ve gone back and edited again. I’d forgotten how much weight you put on that detail; it seemed strange to me at the time, but since it was part of the original feedback loop, I guess I can see why now—you’d already had lots of time to get angry over that particular detail, and I went and rounded it off to something different.
Silas, not having corrected that really wasn’t intended as a slight, although I see now that you took it that way. At the time, I interpreted it you as trying to deflect the conversation into (what I saw as) a minor detail. (And yes, you did try to tell me it wasn’t minor; I brushed it off as motivated cognition, without properly considering the ramifications).
This is an example of what I meant when I say that many intellectual issues aren’t as obvious as stoplights.
Have you presented your thoughts on the mismatch between yourself and other people anywhere? I will happily delete my guess if it is not accurate.
I have a hard time knowing how to help if I don’t know the problem.
Send me a PM if you have a diagnosis. I don’t think I’ve made general remarks on the mismatch anywhere, though I have pointed out when people, like jimrandomh, knowingly perpetuate lies about me after being repeatedly corrected.