Occasional reminder that if you want people to have conversations with you, it needs to be pleasant to have conversations with you. Otherwise you're shooting for a muting.
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I don't know why you felt the need to tag him since I just as much as said I have him muted but he was being obnoxious and completely ignoring the actual point I made to begin with, and when I reiterated said point he just said "fuck that".
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Replying to @drethelin @bdunbar
Given that you had muted him I don't understand what negative affect my use of an "@" sign in the message made. re > obnoxious ... completely ignoring..."fuck that" as a third party observer, I'll just note that that does not square with my observation. I find Brian to be >>>
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one of the calmest nicest people I know. You, on the other hand, are made from the same mold as I am - hot-headed, passionate, quite willing to tell people to !@# themselves ... and, sometimes, perceiving attacks where none are intended. I like and respect both of you.
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... so my TLDR here is "maybe Brian was arguing in good faith and was not purposefully ignoring your points, and there was just a communication flaw". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Something to think about.
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Example conversation: I say X. Someone else says, in all honesty and good faith: ABCDEF! I say: Ok, but that doesn't actually change X. They then respond with: "FUCK YOUR X." This is a conversation I don't particularly want to have regardless of faith.
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Replying to @drethelin @bdunbar
I suppose my argument is that when I give you an additional piece of Bayesian data that "person M thinks that person B is of good faith", you might factor that in to your evaluation of whether tweet #19287123 actually mean "!@# YOU" or not.
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anyway, I've said everything I have to say; I won't belabor my point / bore you further
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