The “challenge” in question was a logically rude—and blatantly disingenuous—attempt to spin the context such that I am somehow obliged to provide citations or else your accusation that komponisto is “dressing up [his] linguistic idiosyncrasies in capitalized statistical drag” is somehow valid
If his preference is only his preference, why do we care? We should do nothing to cater to one person’s linguistic whims.
If we care because his preference may be shared by the LW community, 10 or 15 upvotes are not enough to indicate a community-wide preference, and likewise nothing should be done.
If we care because his preference is descriptively correct and common across many English-speaking communities beyond LW, then a failure to provide citations is a failure to provide proof, and likewise nothing should be done.
I was also pleasantly surprised that the community saw through your gambit and downvoted you to −4. In most environments that would have worked for you—people usually reward clever use of spin and power moves like that yet here it backfired.
This is another kind of comment I dislike.
Karma should be discussed as little as possible. Goodhart’s law, people! The more you discuss karma and even give it weight, the more you destroy any information it was conveying previously. Please don’t do that; I like being able to sort by karma and get a quick ranking of what comments are good.
[...] 10 or 15 upvotes are not enough to indicate a community-wide preference [...]
They aren’t? I perceive that as a fairly large score and practically the second-highest range a comment ever gets, short of the >40 karma of a particularly clever pun or Yvain comment. (That doesn’t justify catering to the whim, but I’d take it seriously at least.)
This is a buried* thread on a Discussion page; the top comment is now down from the cited 10 or 15 upvotes to just +7 (and my first critical comment is currently at +6); and no one comes to a page on a lukeprog video because they want to weigh in on the burning issue of using ‘the’. The people discussing are not a random subset of the community, even if one wanted to argue that the votes were in favor, so there’s that too.
If this were written up as say a front page Article, I have no idea what the overall reaction would be, because there are all those other factors destroying our ability to extrapolate from this little flamewar to LW in general.
* I take that back, it was buried but apparently my comments have gotten enough upvotes to be unhidden again.
[...] 10 or 15 upvotes are not enough to indicate a community-wide preference [...]
They don’t? I perceive that as a fairly large score and practically the second-highest range a comment ever gets, short of the >40 karma of a particularly clever pun or Yvain comment. (That doesn’t justify catering to the whim, but I’d take it seriously at least.)
If his preference is only his preference, why do we care? We should do nothing to cater to one person’s linguistic whims.
If we care because his preference may be shared by the LW community, 10 or 15 upvotes are not enough to indicate a community-wide preference, and likewise nothing should be done.
If we care because his preference is descriptively correct and common across many English-speaking communities beyond LW, then a failure to provide citations is a failure to provide proof, and likewise nothing should be done.
This is another kind of comment I dislike.
Karma should be discussed as little as possible. Goodhart’s law, people! The more you discuss karma and even give it weight, the more you destroy any information it was conveying previously. Please don’t do that; I like being able to sort by karma and get a quick ranking of what comments are good.
They aren’t? I perceive that as a fairly large score and practically the second-highest range a comment ever gets, short of the >40 karma of a particularly clever pun or Yvain comment. (That doesn’t justify catering to the whim, but I’d take it seriously at least.)
This is a buried* thread on a Discussion page; the top comment is now down from the cited 10 or 15 upvotes to just +7 (and my first critical comment is currently at +6); and no one comes to a page on a lukeprog video because they want to weigh in on the burning issue of using ‘the’. The people discussing are not a random subset of the community, even if one wanted to argue that the votes were in favor, so there’s that too.
If this were written up as say a front page Article, I have no idea what the overall reaction would be, because there are all those other factors destroying our ability to extrapolate from this little flamewar to LW in general.
* I take that back, it was buried but apparently my comments have gotten enough upvotes to be unhidden again.
They don’t? I perceive that as a fairly large score and practically the second-highest range a comment ever gets, short of the >40 karma of a particularly clever pun or Yvain comment. (That doesn’t justify catering to the whim, but I’d take it seriously at least.)