Your wounds are self-inflicted. My preferred discussion style is not binding on anyone and anyway, I'm a believer in the "Things should be as simple as possible but not simpler" maxim. The issue is, rather, balancing making your point clearly and correctly against writing a wall'o'text that no one reads. That's not an easy balance to strike. I often say "It's complicated" and cut off large chunks of discussion space for exactly this reason.
balancing making your point clearly and correctly against writing a wall'o'text that no one reads
Which was exactly the tradeoff I made in a way you complained about. I dare say you'd have made a different complaint if I'd made the tradeoff a different way.
So if "my wounds" means the fact that I said something that, taken literally, wasn't very informative: yeah, self-inflicted, and I'm not bothered by those particular wounds.
But if it means the fact that I said something that called forth a bit of mockery from an LW regular who likes mocking t...
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