You're clearly not communicating in good faith.

I most certainly am communicating in good faith, and the fact that you find such a false conclusion "obvious" speaks poorly for your discernment skills. You, on the other hand, have engaged in such dishonest behavior as referring to one of my posts as "an underhanded attempt to shame someone into saying what you want them to say". I do not have a particular thing that I am trying to get gwern to say. If he wants to disagree with me, that's fine. What I have a problem with is him disagreeing with me, and not defending his disagreement, AND calling me a liar for not agreeing with him.

I'm not really interested in talking to someone who is either a troll or so convinced of their rightness that they're blindly misreading what people say.

What have I misread?

And if 18 karma is more than you've earned in a month, you might try being a less terrible commenter.

1. The total downvotes in this thread for my posts is 43, and if you add in the downvotes I've gotten in other threads for posts regarding this matter, it's probably more than 50.

2. How does having a low karma count mean that I am a "terrible commenter"? Does one have to have a minimum number of karma points before you consider them to not fair game for gratuitous insults? Before this issue arose, my karma rating was around 90% positive.