You've completely conceded that your initial argument was total crap. Now you're making a completely different argument. But you were initially just being a total asshole, and your initial argument was wrong. If you would have actually conceded that instead of completely changing what your criticism was, I might think of you as a more genuine person rather than as a disingenuous reputation hound.
I've made factual mistakes but they in no way justify your behavior or the behavior of others.
My imprecision led to no flawed conclusions. And you just stole that argument from pedanterrific, you didn't even think of it yourself, that's pathetic for a defense of your actions or above comment. And I didn't make the imprecision until after your comment: "It only requires that Malfoy knows Voldemort to be Tom Riddle -- which in canon he did." So you're obviously lying when you say "I've only been making corrections when the mistakes significantly affect such conclusions." But the commenters here are stupid and apparently don't notice things like that.
But the idiots who gave you 2 karma (solely for the purpose of opposing my post, because I am now "low status" in your eyes) obviously don't care about consistent advocacies or anything like that, so you only have social incentives to cheat and lie and commit underhanded fallacies, instead of actually either defending your point or admitting that you were wrong. Your (2 levels) above comment was useless, so I conclude that the commenters on this site either don't know how to evaluate comments rationally or else they want to use karma for other purposes.
My impression of this site has gone way down. I mistakenly assumed rationalists would be rational.
That was stupid of me.
Goodbye. I'll still visit because the authors of the posts are intelligent, but I never want to deal with moron commenters who don't want to have productive discussions or, more importantly, the fact that so many people out there just don't recognize the tactics that you're using. I'm sure that this type of belief and argument has a "low status" association in the eyes of many of the other commenters, and based on their past behavior I predict that more negative reputation and bad counterarguments are on the way. But it can't be helped, and I'm not going to waste my time responding to them.
You've completely conceded that your initial argument was total crap.
No, I haven't.
Now you're making a completely different argument.
Since you then made a completely separate and different error, of course I'll make a completely different argument against that completely separate and different error.
and your initial argument was wrong
I've not made a wrong argument against any of your positions.
...My imprecision led to no flawed conclusions. And you just stole that argument from pedanterrific, you didn't even think of it yourself, that's patheti
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