Can we be less rude to people that aren’t used to our community’s discussion norms? Calling someone a parasite isn’t going to convince them of anything, and we want people like Rick to engage with us instead of just exchange some money and ignore the community.
The problem is that the arrangement posited is in fact odious, and that that aspect is important. If you have a word of equal accuracy that concisely communicates the problematic nature of the posited arrangement, I’m all ears.
In this case, the point would be just as strong with no word there instead. “Odious” is also a good word, come to think of it—not “you are odious” but “the arrangement is odious, because you seek to make money by other people’s uncompensated labor,” assume that’s in fact the business model.
Can we be less rude to people that aren’t used to our community’s discussion norms? Calling someone a parasite isn’t going to convince them of anything, and we want people like Rick to engage with us instead of just exchange some money and ignore the community.
The problem is that the arrangement posited is in fact odious, and that that aspect is important. If you have a word of equal accuracy that concisely communicates the problematic nature of the posited arrangement, I’m all ears.
In this case, the point would be just as strong with no word there instead. “Odious” is also a good word, come to think of it—not “you are odious” but “the arrangement is odious, because you seek to make money by other people’s uncompensated labor,” assume that’s in fact the business model.