Re:Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
by dang on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:13PM
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The bulk of the fault lies at the root of the subthread, yes.
If you had actually pointed out what you say you intended to point out, that would have been much better. What you actually posted was an inflammatory quote plus a snarky one liner, and the expected value of that is a flamewar [1].
I realize it's not so easy to make intent explicit, because it seems obvious to you (by "you" I mean all of us, of course)- the problem is that it exists in your head where no one else has access to it - therefore the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate [2].
If you had actually pointed out what you say you intended to point out, that would have been much better. What you actually posted was an inflammatory quote plus a snarky one liner, and the expected value of that is a flamewar [1].
I realize it's not so easy to make intent explicit, because it seems obvious to you (by "you" I mean all of us, of course)- the problem is that it exists in your head where no one else has access to it - therefore the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate [2].
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...