I upvoted for the first paragraph. Then I wanted to cancel the upvote when I read the paragraphs after the quote about Greece (which I deemed too adversarial for a friendly discussion). In the process I discovered the nonobvious fact that one must click again in the upvote button to cancel it: clicking downvote brings it to −1 instead of just canceling the upvote.
Didn’t meant to be adversarial towards Nancy I hope she doesn’t take it that way. I was taking a strong stance that is of course political on what interests and biases Western media generally have. I edited the style, is it better now?
To be honest, I don’t think you should revise your writing based on what just one random LWer (me) thinks. I just wanted to share the discovery I made about canceling upvotes, which was new and unintuitive to me. If I had read your last paragraphs before upvoting, I would have just refrained from voting in either direction and I would not have written any critical comment.
If you really want to know, though, the part that bugged me most was the paragraph immediately after the quote. (“Social justice in action…”) It is snarky; maybe not towards Nancy as such, but certainly against the general opposed political position. I think the “no mindkilling” general code should preclude using snark in a political discussion, since its purpose, roughly, is to lower the status of the opposed viewpoint without adding substance (relative to a non-snarky rewrite).
But as I said, I doubt you should care too much about this opinion and rewrite your post.
Don’t be silly you are a member of the LessWrong community in good standing, I appreciate such feedback. I now see your point about snark, but I was also trying to refer to a particular post by Moldbug, to make this more explicit I’ve added a link there.
It didn’t feel adversarial to me—I’d forgotten about far left violence in Europe.
I did hear about it—you can more or less assume that if it’s on the BBC radio news programs, I’ve heard about it. This doesn’t mean it will come to mind when I’m making sweeping generalizations.
I upvoted for the first paragraph. Then I wanted to cancel the upvote when I read the paragraphs after the quote about Greece (which I deemed too adversarial for a friendly discussion). In the process I discovered the nonobvious fact that one must click again in the upvote button to cancel it: clicking downvote brings it to −1 instead of just canceling the upvote.
Didn’t meant to be adversarial towards Nancy I hope she doesn’t take it that way. I was taking a strong stance that is of course political on what interests and biases Western media generally have. I edited the style, is it better now?
To be honest, I don’t think you should revise your writing based on what just one random LWer (me) thinks. I just wanted to share the discovery I made about canceling upvotes, which was new and unintuitive to me. If I had read your last paragraphs before upvoting, I would have just refrained from voting in either direction and I would not have written any critical comment.
If you really want to know, though, the part that bugged me most was the paragraph immediately after the quote. (“Social justice in action…”) It is snarky; maybe not towards Nancy as such, but certainly against the general opposed political position. I think the “no mindkilling” general code should preclude using snark in a political discussion, since its purpose, roughly, is to lower the status of the opposed viewpoint without adding substance (relative to a non-snarky rewrite).
But as I said, I doubt you should care too much about this opinion and rewrite your post.
Don’t be silly you are a member of the LessWrong community in good standing, I appreciate such feedback. I now see your point about snark, but I was also trying to refer to a particular post by Moldbug, to make this more explicit I’ve added a link there.
It didn’t feel adversarial to me—I’d forgotten about far left violence in Europe.
I did hear about it—you can more or less assume that if it’s on the BBC radio news programs, I’ve heard about it. This doesn’t mean it will come to mind when I’m making sweeping generalizations.