Fact is: nobody is truly (or genuinely) here. Hello! It's an internet forum; where usually the only thing you learn from other members is:
1) Who they want you to think they are, and
2) What kind of games they like to play under a cloak of anonymity. — Galuchat
How sad.
It's just an internet forum (i.e., an anonymous group of people playing all sorts of different games for all sorts of different reasons). Occassionally, someone writes something worth reading. — Galuchat
Unless all communication on an internet forum is conducted using video, a significant amount of information is lost in transmission. — Galuchat
It was unquestionably less civil to call someone a dick than it was for someone to claim your position was sad. The former was bullying, the latter perhaps insensitive. It did seem though from his response that he was unoffended by your middle school taunt, yet by your response it was clear you were incapable of handling criticism maturely. — Hanover
Sounds like yet another irrelevant ad hom. — Hanover
It doesn't change that it was. I'll just keep repeating the same thing as long as you think it necessary to keep saying otherwise. — Hanover
For example, should you reject the above because you find me not credible, that'd be ad hom. If I tell you you're immature based upon agreed upon facts and you reject it as coming from me, that'd be ad hom. — Hanover
As for "handling criticism maturely" it shouldn't surprise you to find out that, after the things you have said to me and about me over the past few weeks, I don't give your criticism much credibility. — T Clark
A now seems to have a choice between admitting that he might be anti-Semitic or admitting that he cannot claim to know he's not. He appears to be playing a losing game. — Srap Tasmaner
Sometimes we do downgrade credibility basked on who a person is: known pathological liar, for instance. — frank
Good questions, and relevant to the OP, because they address communication in the context of an internet forum. — Galuchat
Yes, the format provides a cloak of anonymity. Two things: the "cloaking feature" fades over time, over many interactions. "Real people" emerge from anonymity after a time. Some people here have been interacting for 10 years. The anonymity feature protects forum users from the ill-intentioned visitor, or the snoop. True, we don't list our actual names, addresses, telephone numbers, places of employment, and so forth. But if Tiff or T. Clark wanted to visit me, I'd hand over the information to them. — Bitter Crank
For example, to dismiss something Trump says as false simply on the basis that he's a pathological liar is fallacious even if it's understandable. — Baden
But if Tiff or T. Clark wanted to visit me, I'd hand over the information to them.
I mean, Tiff and T. Clark in person would have to be less of a risk than the hundred guys I brought home from the bar (one at a time) after the briefest of introductions. — Bitter Crank
No, the fallacy is the argument itself; in this case of the form: Trump made an assertion therefore the assertion is false. — Baden
For example, to dismiss something Trump says as false simply on the basis that he's a pathological liar is fallacious even if it's understandable. — Baden
A now seems to have a choice between admitting that he might be anti-Semitic or admitting that he cannot claim to know he's not. He appears to be playing a losing game. — Srap Tasmaner
If losing is judged based on something as superficial as emotional reaction, then yes, he appears to be playing a losing game. He would be at risk of sending the wrong message.
But if admitting that he might be antisemitic is like admitting that he might be a Martian, then, in that sense, it's trivial. — Sapientia
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