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Wow that's disingenuous. No, comments that are off-topic are noise. You want to debate something else (like you're doing now!), go do it in a different thread.
by kobeya 9y ago
Wow that's disingenuous. No, comments that are off-topic are noise. You want to debate something else (like you're doing now!), go do it in a different thread.
- root_axis 9y ago> No, comments that are off-topic are noise. All you're doing here is begging the question. What i'm telling you is that the comment does not meet the definition of "off-topic" and I've explained my reasoning for that, all you've done is repeat the same sentiment that "off-topic comments are noise" which is a completely non-controversial statement that nobody is arguing against. Absent of any further reasoning I am left to assume that you simply do not like the comment. For someone with such a self-righteous attitude regarding the tenants of appropriate discourse, you're sure lacking in respect for fellow commenters by your refusal to provide any justification for flippantly dismissing others comments as "off-topic noise". Normally I expect others to provide reasoning for blanket dismissals, but I suppose you must be the definitive authority on what is and isn't off topic, so everyone who disagrees will just take your word for it and move on. > You want to debate something else (like you're doing now!), go do it in a different thread. Haha, this entire subthread is a direct branch off of your explicitly off-topic comment, yet you're suggesting that I go away because I had the audacity to push back on your blanket dismissal... yet somehow I suspect you don't consider your own replies in this thread to be off-topic noise. I have to respectfully conclude that you're at least twice as disingenuous as a person who will gladly expound on the reasoning behind their arguments.
- guelo 9y agoHonestly I'm very confused by this whole sub-thread because I can't tell if kobeya was talking about my comment or ex3xu's. In my opinion ex3xu's comment was completely off-topic from the original article, and that's what prompted me to respond to him.
- root_axis 9y agoI think he's definitely referring to your comment, he even mimicked your "the real evil is" phrasing. Either way, I don't think either of your comments (you or ex3xu) are off topic, they're both commentary that reflects on the events described in the article.