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> This is a link-baiting article from a link-baiting site, submitted by the karma-baiting author. Check the guidelines again: "When disagreeing, please reply t
by sorbus 16y ago
> This is a link-baiting article from a link-baiting site, submitted by the karma-baiting author.
Check the guidelines again: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""
- edw 16y agoYou're falling prey to the Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy: http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html That this is a link-baiting article is not part of my argument. It's a simple observation. The very title of his article is an insult to Apple users. Did you read past the first sentence of my comment, to—oh, let me see—the second sentence of my comment, where I explain what my problem with his "argument"—i.e. series of insults—is?
- sorbus 16y agoYes, I did read your entire comment. I'm not disagreeing with your points, or trying to dismiss them, I'm saying that the way you lead into them detracts from them, and is uncivil.
- edw 16y agoSo why didn't you take issue with the submitter of this story, who is its author, for submitting content that is itself uncivil? Have you read this guy's piece on the "iPad 2 Dumb Cover"? He is a one-man troll army.
- sorbus 16y agoBecause there's nothing in the guidelines about the civility of submissions, and I'm more concerned with improving the quality of comments than in reducing the number of articles which sink without a trace. (This is, incidentally, my last response in this thread. I'm not interested in being dragged into a long argument that is increasingly tangential from the original issue.)
- edw 16y agoWorrying about the letter of the guidelines misses a more important issue: if a user submits something, they're vouching for its quality. Submitting dreck represents a disservice to the community.