Doesn't it intuitively make sense that feedback about feedback is good for the same reasons that feedback is good? If my intuitions are bad, the least someone could do is offer an argument to prove the flaws of my intuition. I could have clarified this, I guess, but I felt no real reason to do so given the stunning absence of actual substantive criticisms of what I was doing.
People weren't responding rationally to my comments, so I pointed out that those people were being dumb. That seems like something that is okay, and like something that might improve feedback mechanisms and which should thus be praised rather than downvoted. ArisKatsaris' one sentence statement about her karma habits didn't have any justifications behind it, so it didn't deserve a detailed and warranted response. I did describe in general terms the substance of my objection, that's enough in the absence of warranted counterarguments
All of the above listed reasons seem like valid arguments to me, if they're flawed I would like to know. But I would like actual reasons, not just vague statements that appeal to unjustified personal preferences.
People weren't responding rationally to my comments, so I pointed out that those people were being dumb.
Listen to yourself.
I'm not interested in having arguments with you; you don't make that look like a remotely productive use of my time. I'm trying to point out the things you are saying that sound juvenile and cause people to downvote you; it seems to bother you, so maybe if you can figure out the pattern, you will stop saying those things.
Announcing that you are making a valid point does not add anything to a point, however valid it may or may not b...
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