> Adding caveats is no way to get people to engage with you.
Shrug. Works for me.
> it's better to baldly assert something as confidently as possible
Oh Noooo! That misleads people who don't know better and pisses off experts who do, and makes you look stupid when you're told you're wrong - which in my case I don't mind but for some people public embarrassment will cause them to double down, driving them into a corner, igniting long chain posts based on ill feelings, and wasting everyone's time. Happened between me and another just 7 days ago - check my postings.
I know the bit about the best way to get a right answer online is to post a wrong one, but I don't find that so, in fact the opposite. Maybe it works best in toxic communities?
> Adding caveats and exceptions directly in the post usually just obfuscates your point
Shrug. Works for me.
> it's better to baldly assert something as confidently as possible
Oh Noooo! That misleads people who don't know better and pisses off experts who do, and makes you look stupid when you're told you're wrong - which in my case I don't mind but for some people public embarrassment will cause them to double down, driving them into a corner, igniting long chain posts based on ill feelings, and wasting everyone's time. Happened between me and another just 7 days ago - check my postings.
I know the bit about the best way to get a right answer online is to post a wrong one, but I don't find that so, in fact the opposite. Maybe it works best in toxic communities?
> Adding caveats and exceptions directly in the post usually just obfuscates your point
Simple rewrite rule is simple:
I'm afraid we have to agree to differ.