I wrote a big critique outlining why I think it’s bad, but I couldn’t keep it civil and don’t want to spend another hour editing it to be
If you post it anyway (maybe a top-level post for visibility?), I’ll strong-upvote it. I vehemently disagree with you, but even more vehemently than that, I disagree with allowing this class of expense to conceal potentially-useful information, like big critiques. (As it is written of the fifth virtue, “Those who wish to fail must first prevent their friends from helping them.”)
I’m really not trying to make anyone feel bad
Shouldn’t you? If the OP is actually harmful, maybe the authors should feel bad for causing harm! Then the memory of that feeling might stop them from causing analogous harms in analogous future situations. That’s what feelings are for, evolutionarily speaking.
Personally, I disapprove of this entire class of appeals-to-consequences (simpler to just say clearly what you have to say, without trying to optimize how other people will feel about it), but if you find “This post makes the community harder to defend, which is bad” compelling, I don’t see why you wouldn’t also accept “Making the authors feel bad would make the community easier to defend (in expectation), which is good”.
If you post it anyway (maybe a top-level post for visibility?), I’ll strong-upvote it. I vehemently disagree with you, but even more vehemently than that, I disagree with allowing this class of expense to conceal potentially-useful information, like big critiques.
I think you’re ignoring the harms from posting something uncivil. Civility is an extremely important norm. I would not support something that is directly insulting, even if it is an important critique.
However, I did strong-upvote this comment (meaning sirjackholland’s comment on this post) and I applaud them both for not publishing their original critique and for expressing their position anyway.
If you post it anyway (maybe a top-level post for visibility?), I’ll strong-upvote it. I vehemently disagree with you, but even more vehemently than that, I disagree with allowing this class of expense to conceal potentially-useful information, like big critiques. (As it is written of the fifth virtue, “Those who wish to fail must first prevent their friends from helping them.”)
Shouldn’t you? If the OP is actually harmful, maybe the authors should feel bad for causing harm! Then the memory of that feeling might stop them from causing analogous harms in analogous future situations. That’s what feelings are for, evolutionarily speaking.
Personally, I disapprove of this entire class of appeals-to-consequences (simpler to just say clearly what you have to say, without trying to optimize how other people will feel about it), but if you find “This post makes the community harder to defend, which is bad” compelling, I don’t see why you wouldn’t also accept “Making the authors feel bad would make the community easier to defend (in expectation), which is good”.
I think you’re ignoring the harms from posting something uncivil. Civility is an extremely important norm. I would not support something that is directly insulting, even if it is an important critique.
However, I did strong-upvote this comment (meaning sirjackholland’s comment on this post) and I applaud them both for not publishing their original critique and for expressing their position anyway.