Comments

• jo Shields

  2008-12-06 12:35:51

  Proofread is like cutting your toenails versus taking a shower or dressing up

  
  
  And this is a prime example of why BN will never be able to elevate itself past the level of "personal blog".
  
  

  Especially when they got no proof to the point they’re making, they tend to find any to attack you with if it’s got nothing to do with the subject of the discussion.

  
  
  Proof is ignored, over and over. It's fairly normal conspiracy theorist behaviour. Outside the tech world, the current people behind it are the "birthers" insisting that all evidence of the US's president elect's birthplace is fake because it disagrees with their beliefs. BN and its groupies have everything in common with those people - in modus operandi, in refusal to believe evidence, and in labeling detractors with easy-to-ignore labels so they can carry on doing what they're doing.
  
  

  schestowitz, I worry about my posting overall like anyone else does, but if all they have is a nickpick, then they have already lost.

  
  
  In RoyWorld, EVERYTHING is a "nitpick". "That didn't happen. You made it up"... "NITPICKER!" "Erm, that guy's dead."... "NITPICKER!" "Here's evidence that reality is the opposite of your supposition"... "NITPICKER!"
  
  It's a really poor defense, it really is. But your groupies believe it, so I suppose that's what matters.
  
  

  Another technique is “shoot the messenger” (not the typos)

  
  
  Sometimes the messenger is wrong, and the messenger harms the message. If you had a coherent message (another BN problem), I might be able to agree with it, or even with your right to give it. But I'm still not sure what BN stands FOR (I know it stands AGAINST teh micro$haftz, but that's a different topic). I agree with some of the positions taken by rational voices against, say, Mono - but yours is not a rational voice, and your words leave no room for reasoned debate.
  
  Former Florida attorney Jack Thompson is a prime example of how not all messengers are equal. He did more to harm movements against videogame violence than anyone else - essentially by being a complete dick constantly making things up, and ending up as the poster child for that message (allowing more well-reasoned, sane individuals to be ignored).
  
  

  It adds nothing but a chance to get less nitpicking from the likes of AlexH

  
  
  And that is precisely WHY you spend time writing verified, error-free text where you can defend every single word of it without the childish "NITPICKER!" reaction. Ever heard the words "quality, not quantity"?
  
  If you get even the basics flat-out wrong, why should you be considered trustworthy enough for other topics? Crying wolf, methinks?