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<blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 6169664" data-attributes="member: 50304">I read this as being critical of the quality of what is written in a book / PDF / blog post by some corporate minion is OK, but being critical of what is written in an article / blog / message board post by a normal user is somehow verboten.Hear lies the art of civil debate. Rest in peace, kind stranger. My generation hardly knew ye. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />More seriously, though, I think the heart of the matter of the thread topic is what makes criticism &quot;fair&quot; or &quot;unfair.&quot; Attempting to categorize is essential to the process, and yes, it means some opinions given at some time or another are going to be argued to be unfair criticism - or that the very assertion that trying to differentiate &quot;fair&quot; and &quot;unfair&quot; criticism is itself &quot;unfair,&quot; - which is contradictory.No. That's a judgment of the behavior exhibited. A stream of frothing, often-times self-contradictory and uncivil vitriol the likes of which generated the ban on edition-warring on this board in yester-years was &quot;going off the deep end&quot; and possible &quot;beyond the pale&quot; to use another convenient idiom.- Marty Lund</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mlund, post: 6169664, member: 50304"] I read this as being critical of the quality of what is written in a book / PDF / blog post by some corporate minion is OK, but being critical of what is written in an article / blog / message board post by a normal user is somehow verboten. Hear lies the art of civil debate. Rest in peace, kind stranger. My generation hardly knew ye. ;) More seriously, though, I think the heart of the matter of the thread topic is what makes criticism "fair" or "unfair." Attempting to categorize is essential to the process, and yes, it means some opinions given at some time or another are going to be argued to be unfair criticism - or that the very assertion that trying to differentiate "fair" and "unfair" criticism is itself "unfair," - which is contradictory. No. That's a judgment of the [b]behavior[/b] exhibited. A stream of frothing, often-times self-contradictory and uncivil vitriol the likes of which generated the ban on edition-warring on this board in yester-years was "going off the deep end" and possible "beyond the pale" to use another convenient idiom. - Marty Lund [/QUOTE]

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