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You'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-bai
by edw 15y ago
You'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 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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.