It says something profound about the LessWrong community that:
(a) Whenever I post a remark, no matter how innocent, Luke Muehlhauser makes a point of coming to the thread to make defamatory remarks against me personally ….. and his comment is upvoted;
(b) When I, the victim of Muehlhauser’s attack, point out that there is objective evidence to show that the defamation is baseless and unjustified …. my comment is immediately downvoted.
I was not aware of the prior history, but I tend to downvote anyone coming across as a bitter asshole with an ax to grind.
Ditto. I hypothesise that if Richard had used a few different words here and there to take out the overt barbs he may have far more effectively achieved his objective of gaining the moral high ground and making his adversaries look bad.
I’d rather not phrase it in terms of adversaries but the basic point that people would be more inclined to listen to Richard if he was less combative is probably accurate.
It says something profound about the LessWrong community that:
(a) Whenever I post a remark, no matter how innocent, Luke Muehlhauser makes a point of coming to the thread to make defamatory remarks against me personally ….. and his comment is upvoted;
(b) When I, the victim of Muehlhauser’s attack, point out that there is objective evidence to show that the defamation is baseless and unjustified …. my comment is immediately downvoted.
It says something profound about the ten or so people who have voted on your recent comments, assuming none of the votes come from the same person.
I was not aware of the prior history, but I tend to downvote anyone coming across as a bitter asshole with an ax to grind.
Ditto. I hypothesise that if Richard had used a few different words here and there to take out the overt barbs he may have far more effectively achieved his objective of gaining the moral high ground and making his adversaries look bad.
I’d rather not phrase it in terms of adversaries but the basic point that people would be more inclined to listen to Richard if he was less combative is probably accurate.