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rather than just trying to find something to criticize and pick at, which i feel like you do a lot
And again, we're back to examples. I mean, I could say that you focusing down on "people who play dungeons and dragons" was "picking at", for example. Ultimately, I think much of your position can be characterised by your statement:
I was hedging a little bit with my response because I have no clue how seriously to take Grandman, but I also thought it was a bit cheeky to criticize the grammar of a post that was written in haste on a break from fiction writing, and therefore had sentences with a lot of compound clauses, because it's my tendency not to use periods when I'm in a big hurry, like I am now.
That is, if I had more time I would be unassailable. That's fine, but if you don't then you aren't. Which is why the TMFM signal might be a useful thing to have available to signify that you are not able to bring sufficient resources to bear on an issue that you would otherwise like to discuss in greater depth.
Actually, this raises, tangentially, something that I was discussing with someone - the urge to respond. This ties in with an early post of flyboy's and sibyline's, although less so, and it's something I am also taking on board - that there's an urge to make things clear. For example, fat foolish finger's comments. I felt it was important to point out that these were baseless and clearly personal attacks. But, on reflection, that seems to be pretty clear to everyone who expresses an opinion. Likewise, I imagine, Kay's opinions on gangsta rap. Now, Mathlete's lengthy citation of Morrisongate, which a more tasteful forum would perhaps have quietly effaced to save the fellow's blushes, has reminded me that there are some very, very credulous people on Barbelith. Of course, in some cases it basically becomes a matter of spinning the wheel to see whether what you have explained at length has found any purchase at all, but I do worry that, left uncritiqued, Barbelith is no longer a place (possibly never was) where you can leave whhat you believe to be an utterly dunderheaded or dangerous view, be that about some external issue or about people on Barbelith, and be confident that it will be sensibly disregarded by an informed audience.
So, how do other people deal with this? Are there things that you consciously leave to rot, or hope somebody else will pick up, and are there things you simply cannot walk past?
(Incidentally, I'm trying to swim back to id entity's first post, because it deserves it.) |
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