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Re:An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are by betenoire on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:32PM (#18650049)
You've listed the names of various fallacies. Logical fallacies. But what logic are you saying is fallacious in the parent comment? The commenter has their own set of biases and hueristics for choosing what to spend their limited time in.

Unless they follow it up with, "and for these reasons, these are the correct books to read" then there is no fallacy.

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Re:An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are by __s on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:19AM (#18654832)
My point is that identity is a bad measure. If you like their identity, that's plea to authority. If you don't, that's ad hominem. So rather than going off of the value of the content, we're going off of whether you agree or not. This is the thinking that gets people stuck in echo chambers. Better to optimize your time by seeking reviews which might hint at whether the content could be interesting for you or not
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