Re^27: What is "aggressive" argument?

[Argel]

If I thought you were really a troll then I should have bailed out at Re^3: What is "aggressive" argument? (specifically, Re: What is "aggressive" argument? should have been my last post in that thread).

If you sort all of your nodes using "Lowest Reputation First" you should see that there is a loose correlation between depth and node rep.

You seem to be a very left-brained individual, which I think explains the communication disconnect that often seems to occur. I gave you some guidelines that I felt would help you identify when you are becoming too emotionally involved in a heated discussion -- when e.g. you should just let things go. This is something you will have to determine for yourself, on a case by case basis. People are not computers and each thread is unique, so there are no set answers to give. At best we could probably come up with some guidelines based on the data in the PM database (made up example: a node 35 deep is 90% likely to have a negative node rep). I'm sorry, but that's the best I can do.

[BrowserUk]

I gave you some guidelines that I felt would help you identify when you are becoming too emotionally involved in a heated discussion -- when e.g. you should just let things go.

And there it is again. You, through some undefined and indefinable mechanism--like water divining--are judging my written words as "too emotional". Despite the fact that I've consistently refuted that judgement with purely logical reasoning. You are, whether you like the characterisation or not, still trying to impose your censorship on my writings.

I have, through that process of unemotional, logical reasoning, reached and expressed my conclusion, that those attempts are wrong. And still you persist in trying to censure me. It appears important to you. And in the process, you are breaking the very rules that you would impose upon me.

I'm sure that by now 80% of the monastery have long since stopped reading. And of the rest, more than half would, had they an anonymous button they could press to make this thread vanish, push it. If one of them replied to one of your nodes in this thread and told you: "I'm bored with your writing, just stop!". Would you?

It all comes down to you wanting me to submit to "your better judgement". You want me to "admit" that you are right, and I am wrong. Despite that this is a subject where no such 'rightness or wrongness' can be attributed outside of majority vote.

Most (not all, but most) of my long, deep, by your judgement: "too emotional" threads. are very clearly underlain by a striaght-forward technical issue. One that can--in the presence of clear demonstration; ie.code--be irrefutably decided one way or the other. And the vast majority of the friction that arises, does so because people--a particular few--refuse to back up their assertions with proof in the form of code. Preferring instead to dissemble and deflect, by attackng the form of the message or the messenger, rather than the content of the message.

So, once again, I refute your right, mandate nor even consensus, to unilateral decide what of my writings are "too emotional" or "too aggressive" or just "too loud". I refute that your judgements on these issues have any basis in definable, measurable fact. And even if they did, I refute your right to make them.

[Argel]

I refute that your judgements on these issues have any basis in definable, measurable fact. And even if they did, I refute your right to make them.

You do realize that if you refute my right to express my free will then you are in-effect refuting your own right to do the same, right?

Anyway, so you basically just said you couldn't care less about any credible evidence. Of course, based on past posts, it's a safe bet that you *would* use evidence that supported your position. And unfortunately, that leads me to conclude you have been trolling since your OP. The only thing I cannot figure out is if you are even aware of that. You would probably claim you do not care. But ironically you do care that in your mind you are being unjustly singled out. It's too bad you cannot connect the dots. Paraphrasing what I said earlier, I hope you enjoy your one man crusade against the world.

Update: Fixed: "could care less" should be "couldn't care less".

[BrowserUk]

You do realize that if you refute my right to express my free

Strawman. I never said you couldn't hold an opinion. Only that you had no right to try and enforce it upon me. I emphatically told you my position about 15 levels back--and that was a repeat of an earlier post--but you've continued to repeatedly badger me to accept your position. Which of us is the troll?

Anyway, so you basically just said you could care less about any credible evidence. Of course, based on past posts, it's a safe bet that you *would* use evidence that supported your position. And unfortunately, that leads me to conclude you have been trolling since your OP. The only thing I cannot figure out is if you are even aware of that. You would probably claim you do not care. But ironically you do care that in your mind you are being unjustly singled out. It's too bad you cannot connect the dots. Paraphrasing what I said earlier, I hope you enjoy your one man crusade against the world.

Isn't that entire paragraph a personal attack at least as bad as suggesting someone hadn't thought before posting?

And my crusade, if you care to term it that, isn't against the world. Just half a dozen would-be PM despots.