Re: You Failed David Friedman

On Jan 30, 7:13 pm, David Friedman <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article
<cdbfb24b-5936-45f3-bb32-051f94806...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

 Nicky <nicky.matth...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not sure that he can be serious about his dreadful writing but
whether he is or not, his clear intention here is to piss people off.

Perhaps I'm naive, but that isn't my reading. I think he starts out
wanting people to read and praise his writings, a desire I can
sympathise with. When that doesn't happen, turning it into a flame war
while proclaiming his own superiority is a way of not admitting, to
himself or to us, that he wanted our approval and didn't get it.

I don't know how any sincere person could react the way he did to
Zeborah and you and most of the others who took his work seriously and
tried to help him and not in a condescending way.

His "cutting-contest" idea of critting came in pretty early and most
of you were still playing nice at that time. I would feel bad, feel
that I had jumped the gun, if the guy had acted like a human being to
you guys. But I am content that my troll-identification radar
functioned correctly. He's dogfood and not good enough for my Bear.
And I've been done with him for awhile.

On the other tentacle, many of the discussions he started are
interesting and I won't abandon them just because he started them. In
fact, after he gets bored or hit by a car or whatever, his net impact
on the ng will probably be positive.

--
Will in New Haven

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