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“What’s the relevance” was a rhetorical question teeing up the next sentence, not an actual question. Then, after “answering” the rhetorical question I was pro

“What’s the relevance” was a rhetorical question teeing up the next sentence, not an actual question. Then, after “answering” the rhetorical question I was prompting myself with, you say, “Insults don't show good faith,” as if that’s a telling point against me (or at least, that seemed to me to be the rhetorical structure of your response at that point). What insult(s) are you referring to, because at that point I was just puzzled. Finally, you’re not the first one to say “it's not up to me to determine how/if Dang responds to it” in a way I interpret as suggesting I was saying that, so I’ll own that one. But I meant it more in a jokey sense of commiseration at the thankless task he has, given that in almost immediate response to a long-form article going into great depth illustrating his (earnestly attempted) thoughtfulness in moderating came an angry.l accusation (because the commenter disagreed with the substance of some moderation decisions, I guess? The anger in the comment seemed to me to come out of nowhere.)

johnnyanmac 3y ago
I'd hope it would seem obvious, but since you admit to be puzzled: tone is hard to convey on the internet and telling a mod to go outside is one of the most low hanging fruit insults on the internet. Given how much it is said unironically on other platforms I didn't appreciate seeing it here. That's the exact kind of stuff that pushed me off the more popular stuff.
- dmvdoug 3y ago
  > …telling a mod to go outside is one of the most low hanging fruit insults on the internet. That’s funny, because that interpretation wasn’t anywhere on my mental horizon. It’s another example of something that has struck me going back to my days as a philosophy double major. Philosophers of language like to play up the power of referentiality and intentionality for communication. What always struck me as more impressive is just how much space there is in any given human communicative act for misunderstanding and how that seems more common, and vastly more undertheorized, than successful communication.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

I'd hope it would seem obvious, but since you admit to be puzzled: tone is hard to convey on the internet and telling a mod to go outside is one of the most low hanging fruit insults on the internet. Given how much it is said unironically on other platforms I didn't appreciate seeing it here. That's the exact kind of stuff that pushed me off the more popular stuff.

dmvdoug 3y ago
> …telling a mod to go outside is one of the most low hanging fruit insults on the internet. That’s funny, because that interpretation wasn’t anywhere on my mental horizon. It’s another example of something that has struck me going back to my days as a philosophy double major. Philosophers of language like to play up the power of referentiality and intentionality for communication. What always struck me as more impressive is just how much space there is in any given human communicative act for misunderstanding and how that seems more common, and vastly more undertheorized, than successful communication.