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I'm not sure how this is incivil? The claim is logically incoherent: typing cannot be a property of the internet, in the same way tuesday cannot be pink nor ca

I'm not sure how this is incivil? The claim is logically incoherent: typing cannot be a property of the internet, in the same way tuesday cannot be pink nor can addition sound terrifying. The claim is a category error: the internet cannot posses such a property. In addition, to say, of something, that it is " is a made up thing " is a degree of hubris that is presumably reasonably met by being perplexed at overconfidence of the claim posed with such little correct information. Is being perplexed more uncivil than hubris? Are we really policing people's language to this minute degree?

dang 9y ago
"What on earth are you talking about" is uncivil. Your comment didn't need that. Actually you broke this guideline as well: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." It's possible that shalabhc intended to make a mathematical claim, but a stronger plausible interpretation is easy to come up with (e.g. "it's hard to enforce static guarantees across the software that interoperates on the internet"). The reason we ask people to follow this guideline is not so much that it's nicer, but that nitpicking things each other probably didn't say is tedious and detracts from good conversation, which is what we're really hoping for.