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I vehemently disagree that any part of my comment is name-calling or a personal attack. Can you specifically point to it? Stating the background facts of the au
by mlthoughts2018 7y ago
I vehemently disagree that any part of my comment is name-calling or a personal attack. Can you specifically point to it? Stating the background facts of the author is not name calling, and if it loses the author credibility, that’s not an attack but a reasonable consequence.
Comparing the author to a satirical character in a Coupland novel is likewise in no way name calling or attacking. The author herself uses satire as a judgement mechanism for coworkers and others she observed and mentioning eg Coupland serves to point out her hypocrisy.
I strongly disagree with the reprimand on this one.
- dang 7y ago"Liberal arts kid" is obviously name-calling in the sense the site guidelines ask you not to do. That's also a personal attack, and so is "It's like she doesn't realize she is herself a trope character". How would you like someone to say that about you? Generally speaking, everyone thinks they're breaking the site guidelines 1000x less than they actually are. (That's true of me too.) We don't perceive it in our own case, but when there are thousands of readers you can be sure that many, many others will perceive it.