Tesseracts wrote:You're not uncivil, and if your responses reflect your genuine opinion, that's a reasonable standard of fairness. However, you often attribute motives to me I don't have and argue against arguments I never made. To but it bluntly you talk to me kind of like I'm an idiot, and I find that hard to respond to. Example:Citing TV comedies seems like a poor counter to that: I don't think I remember the episode where Matt Groening just took the mic, sat in front of the camera, and started insulting some random kid by name who wrote something on the internet that he didn't like.
I don't know how I'm supposed to respond to this, because you're making it sound like I don't understand what a TV show is. Rather than discuss the issues at hand this forces me to defend myself as a human being, and that's a waste of my time.
I wanted to make the point that there's a substantial difference between the sort of behavior that's being objected to here and a TV comedy. I didn't feel that was necessary because I think you misunderstand TV comedies; I felt it was necessary because I think you misunderstand what we're objecting to. If true, that's a communication issue, not a matter of you being stupid. I apologize for being unclear.
For shits and giggles, I decided to check the last 150 upvotes (ten pages worth) that I gave and tally who got the most. Here's what the top ten looks like:
1. aviel: 33
2. Tess: 14
3. gisambards: 10
4. Damiana: 7
5. Sunny: 6
6. Shuai: 5
7. Andro: 4
7. Askias: 4
7. Marcuse: 4
7. Bert: 4
7. Aquila: 4
7. Eric: 4
Yes, that's actually twelve people--there was a six-way tie for seventh, so sue me.
Note that you're out in front of the pack by a larger margin than anyone else except aviel. You don't have to defend your intelligence or character to me--I don't doubt either one.