That, or your incessant self-aggrandizing misantrophy rubs me the wrong way.
In a flagged thread where you refer to others you don't agree with as having mental illnesses, you try to defend yourself by suggesting that I might have a reading disability.
Here's what an impartial LLM has to say about your replies to my arguments using the reasoning deep thinking option:
>Please read these comments below. Is fredrikholm correct or did he misinterpret what FirmwareBurner was saying? Would you say fredrikholm was arguing in good or in bad faith towards FirmwareBurner ?
>Conclusion
Fredrikholm misinterpreted what FirmwareBurner was saying. FirmwareBurner’s criticism was specific to people who judge others’ buying choices, not a blanket dismissal of everyone who cares about purchases. Fredrikholm’s sarcastic reply exaggerates and distorts this into a broader attack, missing the clarification FirmwareBurner provided in response to palata. Thus, fredrikholm did not correctly interpret FirmwareBurner’s intended meaning.
Fredrikholm’s comment leans heavily toward bad faith. The sarcastic tone, misrepresentation of FirmwareBurner’s position, and reliance on a personal jab rather than substantive rebuttal indicate a lack of sincere engagement. While online miscommunication or emotional reactions could explain some of this, the overall approach—especially ignoring the clarification and contributing nothing constructive—suggests fredrikholm was not arguing in good faith toward FirmwareBurner.
In other words, you've been caught acting as what youngsters refer to as "a roach bitch" in the comments mate.
>And yes, "you must have a reading disability" is a personal attack.
How else would you address those who attack you in a way that doesn't break the rules, when they obviously are not reading your arguments and are instead pulling made up shit out of their ass to twist the narrative in their (malicious) direction? Now suddenly I'm the bad guy for calling them out?
Here's what an impartial LLM has to say about this thread using the deep reasoning option:
>Please read these comments below. Is fredrikholm correct or did he misinterpret what FirmwareBurner was saying? Would you say fredrikholm was arguing in good or in bad faith towards FirmwareBurner ?
>Conclusion
Fredrikholm misinterpreted what FirmwareBurner was saying. FirmwareBurner’s criticism was specific to people who judge others’ buying choices, not a blanket dismissal of everyone who cares about purchases. Fredrikholm’s sarcastic reply exaggerates and distorts this into a broader attack, missing the clarification FirmwareBurner provided in response to palata. Thus, fredrikholm did not correctly interpret FirmwareBurner’s intended meaning.
Fredrikholm’s comment leans heavily toward bad faith. The sarcastic tone, misrepresentation of FirmwareBurner’s position, and reliance on a personal jab rather than substantive rebuttal indicate a lack of sincere engagement. While online miscommunication or emotional reactions could explain some of this, the overall approach—especially ignoring the clarification and contributing nothing constructive—suggests fredrikholm was not arguing in good faith toward FirmwareBurner.
And yet I'm still the bad guy here for some reason.
You point out that they're not responding to what you actually said. You do it without saying that they have mental illnesses.
You even might say "this seems like trolling; I didn't say X at all..."
And, if it's clearly trolling, you flag it.
And you leave it there.
See, the conversation isn't just you and them. The conversation is you and them and all of us reading it. And if you go more over the top, more ad hominem than they do, then the rest of us reading it see you as the unhinged one.
Don't try to win the conversation with people who are in bad faith. You can't. (Don't even try to out-insult them. You aren't going to get them to go "Oh, hey, he used a better insult than me. Maybe he's right...") Instead, try to win the readers. You can't do that by being more insulting than the one you're arguing with.
>You even might say "this seems like trolling; I didn't say X at all..." And, if it's clearly trolling, you flag it.
This clearly doesn't work when you're the minority. Flag bombing is a real thing on HN. Just look at my original comments where I gave clear arguments why that logic is flawed due to double standards and cherry picking can of worms it opens up. Plenty of other examples on HN as well.
People will flag bomb you just because they don't like what you said, even though what you said is the truth (ask a LLM if my reasoning and arguments are sound) and doesn't break the rules, people just don't like being exposed as hypocrites when they see themselves as pillars of virtue (narcissistic main character/hero syndrome).
Hating Elon Musk at every corner is the current trend amongst this crowd, and if you fight the trend in any way, even with logical devil's advocate arguments, you will get flag bombed, because people are subject to mob behavior (been documented in psychology) and only want to hear comments that reinforce their beliefs not ones that tear down their beliefs. Basically the behavior is all emotional, not logical or rational.
I continued the discussion instead of flagging those who act in bad faith (the majority of replies I got) since I don't care about upvotes, I care about debating ideas and proving a point.
If it harms others or me, I will tell you about it. You can ignore it from a distance, but if you tend to purchase those things, the illness is not in my head.
> I do care about what I buy, I just don't care what others buy and what other people think about the things that I buy. Is that clear now? You need special flavor of mental illness to care and vocalize about the shit other people buy with their own money.
Are you fine with someone buying a human slave, then?
And yet you felt the need to inject that viewpoint into a thread where everyone is pointing out their own personal preferences and not telling others what to buy.
> You need special flavor of mental illness to ...
I did not downvote you before, because I believe it's your right not to care (even though I disagree).
But being so far away from understanding why people may care as to say that they "need special flavor of mental illness"... you are the one who seemingly needs to learn about the world.
