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PaperclipPerfector  1yr ago (text post)   3261 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 9, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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While "How many of you are postmodernists?" is a reasonable enough question, this looks a lot like "Two people I was arguing with said stupid shit, and I want to make fun of their poor reasoning." Predictably, your discussion with one of the people you called out, below, immediately became heated.

You have engaged in this kind of petty antagonism several times now and last time you earned a ban for it. I'm actually not going to ban you this time, mostly because it actually spawned an interesting discussion (that is usually not a sufficient defense for a bad starting post), and your antagonism is, eh, borderline. And @DaseindustriesLtd took the bait and immediately became snarky in return. One of the other mods might have banned you. I'm just adding another warning to your rap sheet, and will probably go for a long term ban next time if you do this again.

For the record, I didn't mind at all, and have been finding this running debate greatly rewarding.

Also, ho shit, my dude, that flair! straight and to the point, as it were!

I presume it's something someone said to him, rather than anything he wants to do.

that's absolutely what it is. I'm just sort of amazed and disappointed in my fellow pseudoanons.

You certainly don't Janny for the love and adoration, I'll say that much, albeit the mods here get a lot more respect than usual, and it's earned.

I have to present the problem and common arguments. And it would be discourteous to quote them without pinging them.

I don’t even know what you condemn me for (or not condemn me, just ‘write me up’ for unnammed offenses) . “Calling out“ common arguments in the sub in the spirit of discourse? A minute amount of mutual snark (just between me and dase, really) didn’t get in the way of the lengthy arguments I had with them as I intended, and I would never report anyone for that.

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