He has a lot of what I call ‘bait’ comments, trying to get people to respond in a way that allows him to tear them down. He already knows how he’s going to answer the next step in the conversation, having prepared the material long ago. Though it’s not quite copy/paste, it’s close, kind of like a telemarketing script. I hardly see anything constructive, and find myself often downvoting him due to repetitive baiting with no end in sight.
There’s no question that many of his comments aren’t helpful. And he does talk about issues that are outside his expertise and doesn’t listen to people telling him otherwise (one of the more egregious examples would be in the comments to this post), and Tim responds negatively to people telling him that he is not informed about topics. But Tim does make helpful remarks. Examples of recent unambiguously productive remarks include this one, and this one. I don’t see enough here to conclude that Tim is in general a problem.
Perhaps it was presumptuous and antagonistic, perhaps I could have been more tactful, and I’m sorry if I offended you. But I stand by my original statement, because it was true.
Note to self: never use the word “sorry” near Tim Tyler.
And you threw the apology back in my face, introduced some more incorrect arguments, then cited the exchange here as evidence that you were right. Gee, thanks. I will not reply to you again without concrete evidence that you’ve changed.
Look at his actual comments.
He has a lot of what I call ‘bait’ comments, trying to get people to respond in a way that allows him to tear them down. He already knows how he’s going to answer the next step in the conversation, having prepared the material long ago. Though it’s not quite copy/paste, it’s close, kind of like a telemarketing script. I hardly see anything constructive, and find myself often downvoting him due to repetitive baiting with no end in sight.
There’s no question that many of his comments aren’t helpful. And he does talk about issues that are outside his expertise and doesn’t listen to people telling him otherwise (one of the more egregious examples would be in the comments to this post), and Tim responds negatively to people telling him that he is not informed about topics. But Tim does make helpful remarks. Examples of recent unambiguously productive remarks include this one, and this one. I don’t see enough here to conclude that Tim is in general a problem.
Not my finest hour :-(
Fortunately, they did apologise for doing that.
The linked comment reads:
Note to self: never use the word “sorry” near Tim Tyler.
And you threw the apology back in my face, introduced some more incorrect arguments, then cited the exchange here as evidence that you were right. Gee, thanks. I will not reply to you again without concrete evidence that you’ve changed.
You appear to be misinterpreting :-(
Try “I appear to have been unclear” instead.