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Just to be clear, at what point did I cross the line? Just with the final comment? Or when it became a back and forth where he was being unpleasant? The way the
by asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
Just to be clear, at what point did I cross the line? Just with the final comment? Or when it became a back and forth where he was being unpleasant? The way the site guidelines you cited to me are worded, I ought to stop responding even if I'm responding in good faith and trying to be polite. I just want to confirm that that's true.
- dang 6y agoYour comments contained good information and points (fine) mixed in with swipes and flamewar (not fine), e.g. "OK, so you don't like it. That's definitive." and "I'll leave it to the reader to decide who has been the snarky one in this convo." are tit-for-tat flamewar and "I'm done with you." is personally rude.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoOk, thanks. I'm sorry about this. I got frustrated because I felt like I had been responding in good faith for a whole series of comments and the other person was being rude to me in all their comments -- not just in this branch, but in the other branch of this convo where we interacted. But I should be an adult and hold my temper. I'll do better next time.
- mlyle 6y agoHonestly, I felt like your immediate dismissal of my statement about correlation with a canned response was aggressive and not conducive to further friendly discussion. The way you responded to me is the exact way I would talk to someone I intended to impatiently dismiss. If you're really interested in discussing the topic at hand, you can choose a tack that's more open to discussion (e.g. "OK, you say they're correlated, but is there any actual evidence for causation?" might be slightly aggro, but it doesn't come off as completely dismissing what the other person said or lecture them on the basics of epistemology). I'm sorry that I reacted the way that I did.