HughRistik comments on 'oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HughRistik 04 October 2009 05:24:47AM 16 points [-]

If and when you make comments with merit, I mod you up, without regard for any stupidity you might have revealed in the past.

Note: as someone who is mainly on your "side," use of terms like "stupidity" and "your failures" seem unnecessarily hostile and undermine the emphasis you place on separating people and arguments.

Comment author: SilasBarta 05 October 2009 07:16:34PM 3 points [-]

Fair point, and I appreciate your input -- I'm often ignorant of the differences between how I would take remarks vs. how other people would.

But with respect to my use of "your failures", that was just to follow the form of Alicorn's question, not because I like making others feel like failures. Here's the relevant part:

Let me clarify: you think I'm immature, almost constantly in error, you won't explain my failures in enough detail for me to make use of the information even when I ask... [bold added -- SB]