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saagarjha · 2019-10-27 17:29:31

Hey now, there's no need to attack the author like this.

davidw | karma 63893 | avg karma 3.82 · | 2012-10-30 12:06:22+00:00

You're "attacking" the author, not what he wrote.

YawningAngel | karma 909 | avg karma 2.63 · | 2020-01-23 11:19:25+00:00

I don't think the OP is suggesting killing the author.

ananthrk | karma 1856 | avg karma 7.61 · | 2010-06-14 04:44:20+00:00

Please avoid mixing your response with an attack on the author

krageon | karma 5600 | avg karma 1.5 · | 2019-01-21 09:00:16

It's not rude to point out the author is doing something bad.

georgebarnett | karma 1336 | avg karma 4.48 · | 2022-07-03 20:38:06

It's OK to not like the work somebody produces.

It's not OK to be a dick about it and harass them.

The author owes you nothing.

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fallingknife | karma 5335 | avg karma 2.24 · | 2021-05-06 14:59:51

Well you could say that instead of going after the author.

cf498 | karma 926 | avg karma 2.44 · | 2019-04-22 23:59:18

Authors are persons and clearly have freedom of speech, no one here is arguing with that.

saagarjha | karma 56017 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2023-08-20 00:29:41

Insulting the author is not appropriate.

yosito | karma 8517 | avg karma 3.79 · | 2023-08-17 14:47:38

Stating my opinion about the author's opinion isn't slander. Take it easy. And there's no reason to compare the author and me. We're talking about the opinion here, not about who holds it.

stephenjudkins | karma 1606 | avg karma 9.73 · | 2010-05-04 22:06:01+00:00

I'm not personally attacking the author, I'm attacking his writing. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, I'd argue any implied personal attacks in my comment are far milder than those in Raymond's post.

WheatMillington | karma 1943 | avg karma 4.46 · | 2024-06-06 20:02:12

Why are you attacking the author instead of addressing the message?

sebstefan | karma 1301 | avg karma 3.78 · | 2022-10-28 02:51:57

I wouldn't consider the author to be the problem.

forgottenpass | karma 6258 | avg karma 3.21 · | 2014-02-05 18:44:24

No, actually it's not. This isn't ignoring the issue at hand and just attacking the author's character, it's attacking the authors authority on a subject matter.

tjr | karma 8894 | avg karma 4.16 · | 2014-03-01 17:16:36+00:00

Clearly, the author doesn't care what you think of his polite self-censorship. :-)

hacym | karma 292 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2022-12-07 07:47:51

You’re weirdly trying to attack the author. Why is that?

jczhang | karma 139 | avg karma 0.89 · | 2018-06-21 18:03:29

Not the writer or publisher's problem imo.

true_religion | karma 6837 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2012-07-02 12:38:35

They are saying that the author is a counter-example to their own argument.

It's not an attack on their credentials to have an argument.

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Igelau | karma | avg karma · | 2021-03-08 23:26:30+00:00

Obviously the author bears her no ill will. If you want to find out who it is, that's your problem.

havelhovel | karma 557 | avg karma 3.69 · | 2022-03-31 20:47:33

Not the person you're insulting, but (1) I don't think there's anything creepy about reading articles that someone publishes and (2) there are four articles total.