Am I not allowed to point of observations about your demeanour/writing style?
Not according to the community guidelines, no.
I’m merely observing what I and others who have liked my posts are interpreting your posts to be. Notice that you don’t have likes on your posts on this thread. This is why I’m encouraging introspection
No, you are posting comments that are (at best) derogatory about me and not adding to the conversation by criticizing the content my comments. You are still doing that here. I find it very tiresome and I think it’s pretty unreliable to take no ‘likes’ as an indication of dissensus or invalidate comments. SOme people just don’t have the time for this type of discussion but take it with them and leave no trace. I suggest you do not use likes as a measure of popularity or popularity as a measure of legitimacy but if you do, we are going to have a very hard time trying to work through this topic in a useful way. If you want to offer vague and ambiguous unsolicited, remote counselling advice to complete strangers on the internet I am sure you will get some takers, it’s a very popular thing to do and lots of people appreciate it but I tend to think it would be better for us both if you simply enaged with the substance of my comments, as per the community guidelines.
I think what you may be failing to grasp
Here you go again. This implies I have some form of cognitive impairment. You do that by MISQUOTING ME.
I said:
I expect communities like this one to at least understand that crucial difference
I did NOT say: “I expect more from this community.”
My comment was that I expect communities like this one to AT LEAST understand the difference between restricting a company and letting them decide if they want to participate or not. I said this because I suspect people here to be better than average educated and so I would not try to patronize them by suggesting that letting big companies decide if they want to use the AGPL is the same as havinga clause in the AGPL that literally restricts them. You understand that difference, and I think most people here would, so my comment is criticizing the comment creating an equivalence between the two.
when responding to an individual, it is actually quite insulting and condescending to the individual you’re responding to.
I’ll resist my impulse to explain how ironic what you say is here because you are likely to be intelligent enough to see it for yourself. I am asking you offer me the same courtesy.
Further, telling people to “be cool” at the end of every post isn’t actually helping with civil discussion.
I am not telling anyone to be cool. I said ‘let’s be cool’ which is ‘I’ll be cool if you are’.
Why do you feel the need to engage in discussion by preempting it with a statement suggesting others will not “be cool”?
Because people are prepared to contravene the community guidelines when engaging in this discussion. It’s an informal reminder that policing a person’s tone or making comments like you are doing here that implicate a person’s intentions, motivations or character are ‘not cool’ and yet people still feel inclined to comment in the way you are doing here. It’s not cool, in the sense that it breaks the community guidelines.
I would only speculate that you’ve had trouble with others in the past because of the way you’re engaging currently on this community.
Yes. Please do speculate. That’s fine. Just leave it to people you actually know because although speculation is fine posting that kind of speculation is against the guidelines too. More importantly, I think it is very creepy. You are taking far too much interest in me and not engaging with the material. I am not saying you are creepy, I don’t know you and have no interest in getting to know you of course but I am saying that personally I find the content of your posts creepy which is something I am fine about dealing with.
I didn’t read the rest of your comment because it was they are WAY too personal and have nothing to do with the conversation.
Regardless; to the issue at hand;
Phew! Finally… please repost what you have to say about the post and I will read it. I have not responded here because it’s been combined with too much judgement about me, which is all against the community guidelines so I will flag it.
If you would like to engage with the content of this conversation then please repost your remarks and to be sure I read it all please leave any subjecive speculations about me out of it.
TVM