SilasBarta comments on [SEQ RERUN] Stop Voting For Nincompoops - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 17 December 2011 04:16:39AM *  1 point [-]

True, but wedrifid was not invoking that following definition as evidence; he was invoking the presence of scare quotes, and as an independent data point; and he in fact agreed that the summary paragraph was insufficient to learn the point of the post -- hence why I criticized the summary (conditional on wedrifid's claim) for failing to do its job (of either summarizing or making clear what you have to read the article to know).

Edit: Wow that's a big tangle. Here's a recap:

machrider: *reads summary*; *makes (possibly) bad point in response*
wedrifid: "What a stupid point, you obviously just read the summary and not the whole post."
me: "Then it's a bad summary."
wedrifid: "Even so, it had scare quotes."
me: "Whoa, let's not overestimate what they can do."