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Yep, think this is often the case. One interesting habit is to distort the intention or cite an extreme example of the original post to something ludicrous and
by craigdalton 8y ago
Yep, think this is often the case. One interesting habit is to distort the intention or cite an extreme example of the original post to something ludicrous and then ridicule it as... ludicrous.
- dang 8y agoThere's a site guideline specifically against that: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- craigdalton 8y agothat is a great guideline that I forgot about. I wonder if this should be reposted when appropriate.
- jaredsohn 8y agoIt often is. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Please%20respond%20to%20the%20strongest%20plausible%20interpretation&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Please%20respond%20to%20the%20...