On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 11:59:21AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > Otherwise, we have to endure messages like "Help with my question, > > please" (September 2025), > > We have to, anyway. If you paid attention, that person didn't engage > very much with the answers on-list.
That's called the Red Herring fallacy. It is a logical fallacy encountered during debate. The discussion is about On-topic/Off-topic posts, not how much a poster engages the list. And it is not clear to me what an attention span has to do with the argument. I mostly stopped paying attention to the thread because it was off-topic; not for some other reason like lack of comprehension skills. Perhaps it was an attempt at a passive-aggressive insult? > That's the price we pay for having an open place. I think it's worth > it. > > Yes, there are strange folks out there, but we all are strange in > some way some of the time. That is called the Hasty Generalization fallacy. It is another logical fallacy. > I, at least, am glad to get some tolerance and compassion whenever > someone perceives me as strange (which, I'm sure, happens all the > time!) instead of being yelled at. That's called the Bandwagon fallacy. It is another logical fallacy. Jeff
