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>For example, cs.opinion is no-holds barred and often both agressive and personal. Doesn't this just seem like a silly failure to live up to the principle? Be
by Traster 5y ago
>For example, cs.opinion is no-holds barred and often both agressive and personal.
Doesn't this just seem like a silly failure to live up to the principle? Be reasonable - except over here where everyone acts like arseholes...
- chrismaeda 5y agoI was a grad student at CMU CS in the early 90s. The assholishness on the opinion bb was mostly performative. Imagine a bunch of kids in their 20s field testing opinions that they were not necessarily committed to. The RPP was great for a graduate computer science department. I only learned years later that not everyone is reasonable...
- TeMPOraL 5y agoI guess they see it as a pressure relief valve. Some people need it - it seems that being reasonable everywhere, all the time, is not something everyone is comfortable with.