My goal in all of this is to make it so that Alicorn and I don’t have to treat each other like enemies anymore—so she can reply to my comments, and I to hers.
I would love for the hostility to end too, because it’s pretty stupid that people can’t publicly reply to each other on a message board.
I suspect I’ll regret getting sucked into this topic, but curiosity forces me to ask: if you think Alicorn is acting unreasonably, why not just resume replying to her comments as and when you want? She doesn’t have any special editor/moderator powers to prevent you from doing so, as far as I can tell.
Why don’t you ask all the other people who have been criticizing me what they think of this advice?
I don’t (at least, not yet) have much interest in what they think of this advice, although I am curious about what they did when you tried it. So if you have a link to what happened ‘last time,’ I’ll check it out.
I made my previous comment because of the unfortunate tendency in this discussion for several people to give me contradictory “obvious” advice, and rather than justifying contradictory positions to each of them, I’ve been content to just point out the kafkaesque standards I’m being held to.
As for the ‘last time’, I’ve linked this several times, but here you go. Notice how unpunished the good deeds go.
I made my previous comment because of the unfortunate tendency in this discussion for several people to give me contradictory “obvious” advice, and rather than justifying contradictory positions to each of them, I’ve been content to just point out the kafkaesque standards I’m being held to.
OK.
As for the ‘last time’, I’ve linked this several times,
I wasn’t around for the past iterations of this discussion, and I haven’t read the entirety of its latest iteration under this top-level post, so I probably missed it. If you’re fed up with people prompting you to link it, I’m sorry; I hadn’t realized you’d been repeatedly prompted to link it.
but here you go. Notice how unpunished the good deeds go.
Reading.
Edit—I’ve now read the thread, and I have some thoughts, but they’re not urgent and I get the feeling you’re not much interested in advice/rationalizations of advice, so I’ll bite my tongue.
I suspect I’ll regret getting sucked into this topic, but curiosity forces me to ask: if you think Alicorn is acting unreasonably, why not just resume replying to her comments as and when you want? She doesn’t have any special editor/moderator powers to prevent you from doing so, as far as I can tell.
Why don’t you ask all the other people who have been criticizing me what they think of this advice? Or check out the last time I tried that.
I don’t (at least, not yet) have much interest in what they think of this advice, although I am curious about what they did when you tried it. So if you have a link to what happened ‘last time,’ I’ll check it out.
I made my previous comment because of the unfortunate tendency in this discussion for several people to give me contradictory “obvious” advice, and rather than justifying contradictory positions to each of them, I’ve been content to just point out the kafkaesque standards I’m being held to.
As for the ‘last time’, I’ve linked this several times, but here you go. Notice how unpunished the good deeds go.
OK.
I wasn’t around for the past iterations of this discussion, and I haven’t read the entirety of its latest iteration under this top-level post, so I probably missed it. If you’re fed up with people prompting you to link it, I’m sorry; I hadn’t realized you’d been repeatedly prompted to link it.
Reading.
Edit—I’ve now read the thread, and I have some thoughts, but they’re not urgent and I get the feeling you’re not much interested in advice/rationalizations of advice, so I’ll bite my tongue.