On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:02:10PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Ignoring each other also comes from the impression of talking past each
other. Compared to hostility, it's more mature, polite, civilised and
insidious.
Even better than ignoring,
It sounds like I mean that ignoring is better than arguing, but that's not
what i mean. (what does "insidious" mean to you?)
it is possible to use non-provocatory language and to purposely disarm
your own writing by eliminating emotionally charged content, and still
communicate your point clearly.
OTOH the content is then still about controversial ideas and it's still
about promoting some people's ideas at the expense of some other people's
other ideas. This happens regardless of the amount of spin-doctoring
performed to dull it.
Then again, maybe it's fun for some people to be argumentative, and
their motives are something other than making better software and
helping others.
No matter how fun it can be, I don't think anyone here is mostly arguing
for the fun of arguing. E.g. for me, there has to be opportunity for some
kind of learning that feeds back into thought processes that are
eventually productive. Ok, I also write dumb mails sometimes; but we might
not agree on which ones are. Sometimes, valid questions look essentially
like trolling; but some mindframe's trollish questions is some other
mindframe's theoretical underpinnings.
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