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I don't know what 'deeply understanding tech' has to do with any of that. Plenty of people who 'deeply understand tech' get drunk and puke in places. Honestly, you sound like a Victorian-era petty lord looking down his nose at 'commoners'.

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You read the part where I said the understanding constrains the existing user base from antisocial behavior, right?

This isn't about "commoners". It's that any large group of people contains assholes, assholes restrain themselves depending on circumstances, and the new users might well lack that understanding.

It's fundamentally not about "commoners", but about a knowledge-based restraint falling away. (As for the "commoners", you might also want to read the last part of my comment, instead of outraging)

The fact that a critique by someone else of what they think you sound like makes you accuse them of 'outrage' is exactly why you sound like a snob.

If that person had done me the courtesy of actually reading, I wouldn't object.

That person did read it, and the fact that you believe anything you wrote in the entire comment would not contribute to the notion that your are a classist snob is hilarious.

Bingo

and you said it wasn't a loaded question. That was intellectually dishonest of you.

I don't think you understand what "loaded question" means.

A loaded question is a trick question, which presupposes at least one unverified assumption that the person being questioned is likely to disagree with.

Can you quote my question back to me and point out the presumption that the person is likely to disagree with?

I'll take that as a "no".

Take it however you want. You know what you're doing and it's intellectually dishonest.

You said that already.

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