Looking at voting patterns in this subthread, I have the impression that readers generally have the impression that I’m attempting to mount some sort of attack on Eric. Obviously I can’t prove anything about my intentions here, but I promise that that was not in any way my purpose; I was answering Zian’s puzzlement about how ESR could possibly be controversial by pointing out some controversial things. I don’t think Eric would disagree with my identification of those things as things some people might get angry about.
If my purpose had been an unscrupulous political attack, I wouldn’t have provided links to let everyone check whether my brief summaries were accurate, and I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to point out that I might have made errors and explain why they were particularly likely in this instance.
(I don’t object to being downvoted; if you think something I write is of low quality then you should downvote it. But it looks to me as if some wrong assumptions may be being made about my motives here.)
[EDITED to add:] Things look more “normal” now; dunno whether that means that the earlier state was some sort of statistical anomaly, or that some people read the above and agreed, or what. I mention this just in case anyone’s reading this and wonders why in this comment I’m expressing concern about something that’s not there :-).
Looking at voting patterns in this subthread, I have the impression that readers generally have the impression that I’m attempting to mount some sort of attack on Eric. Obviously I can’t prove anything about my intentions here, but I promise that that was not in any way my purpose; I was answering Zian’s puzzlement about how ESR could possibly be controversial by pointing out some controversial things. I don’t think Eric would disagree with my identification of those things as things some people might get angry about.
If my purpose had been an unscrupulous political attack, I wouldn’t have provided links to let everyone check whether my brief summaries were accurate, and I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to point out that I might have made errors and explain why they were particularly likely in this instance.
(I don’t object to being downvoted; if you think something I write is of low quality then you should downvote it. But it looks to me as if some wrong assumptions may be being made about my motives here.)
[EDITED to add:] Things look more “normal” now; dunno whether that means that the earlier state was some sort of statistical anomaly, or that some people read the above and agreed, or what. I mention this just in case anyone’s reading this and wonders why in this comment I’m expressing concern about something that’s not there :-).