Yeah I've read that and I feel like it's a miss (at least for me). It's an all together too serious and non-self deprecating take on the issue. I appreciate that in that post Eliezer is trying to correct a lot of mis perceptions at once but my problem with that is

a)a lot of people won't actually know about all these attacks (I'd read the rational wiki article, which I don't think is nearly as bad as Eliezer says (that is possibly due to its content having altered over time!)), and responding to them all actually gives them the oxygen of publicity. b)When you've made a mistake the correct action (in my opinion ) is to go "yup, I messed up at that point", give a very short explanation of why, and try to move on. Going into extreme detail gives the impression that Eliezer isn't terribly sorry for his behaviour. Maybe he isn't, but from a PR perspective it would be better to look sorry. Sometimes it's better to move on from an argument rather than trying to keep having it!

Further to that last point, I've foudn that Eliezer often engages with dissent by having a full argument with the person who is dissenting. Now this might be a good strategy from the point of view of persuading the dissenter: if I come in and say cyronics sux then a reasoned response might change my mind. But by engaging so thoroughly with dissent when it occurs it actually makes him look more fighty.

I'm thinking here about how it appears to outside observers: just as with a formal debate the goal isn't to convince the person you are arguing with, it is to convince the audience, with PR the point isn't to defeat the dissenter with your marvellous wordplay, it is to convince the audience that you are more sane than the dissenter.

Obviously these are my perceptions of how Eliezer comes across, I could easily be an exception.