You're forgetting something: They were hostile to me before I had a chance to contribute. Here's where your logic falls apart: B.P1 is demonstrably false, in a

You're forgetting something: They were hostile to me before I had a chance to contribute. Here's where your logic falls apart: B.P1 is demonstrably false, in at least one occurrence. (i.e. Mine, where the hostility existed irrespective of my writing skills or the value of my potential contributions, or the lack thereof, because they were acting with zero information which shows their tendencies. If you've already established social capital, you're part of their in-group and therefore will not be attacked.) But from the overall tone of the other comments here, and the sheer upvote/downvote ratio of my top-level comment, it's probably not a rare event. I didn't think you overlooked this detail. I misinterpreted your statements as a personal attack based on the fact that I already explicitly made this clear and you appeared to have enough mastery of the English language to possess basic reading comprehension. But clearly I was wrong somewhere. I apologize for giving you too much credit. Hopefully spelling it out here, again, makes it clearer. If not, there's no point continuing this conversation because it's only going to get nasty.