Digg comments about how to disagree, slightly different from News.YC

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8 points·mrtron··12 comments

It's surprisingly restrained, though. I noticed the same thing on reddit. This particular essay seems to wedge trolls.

Probably because nobody feels implicitly attacked in a specific way and doesn't feel the urge to be impulsively vindictive.

I wonder if it can be used as an anti-troll weapon in other discussion forums... Should it be added to the news.YC guidelines too?

Correction: not on MetaFilter.

http://www.metafilter.com/70350/Turning-writing-into-a-conve...

On the other hand, it's not entirely surprising MetaFilter users would dislike this one. The point about the pretentious subtype of DH0 was inspired by MetaFilter comment threads.

Of course they would say that. They're MetaFilter users.

Sometimes it's hard to draw the line between a relatively useless ad hominem attack and a meaningful critique of a group. How do you distinguish between what you just said here and DH1?

I'm not doing it as a form of disagreement. (I don't expect MetaFilter readers to see this thread.) I'm just explaining where that part of the essay came from.

"It's surprisingly restrained" -- It is a long essay, so most people that would write childish comments might not bother to read it at all, still there a are few burried comments that are pretty inane.

Digg is bad. Don't go there.

Funny how much ad hominem thinking regulates our behavior, and benefits us, no matter how much of a fallacy it is supposed to be.

Let's be thankful we have a venue for intelligent discourse.

Whoa. Striking difference. It's almost like YouTube... I don't think comments can get worse than YouTubian ones.

Looks like posting on digg is like spitting into the ocean. What's the point?

mmm metacomments..

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