[p2p-research] A vaguely passive-aggressive post on commenters

[Ryan]

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post on commenters via 3quarksdaily by Abbas Raza on 12/3/09

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber:

Ten types of commenter, of which the last are the rarest.


- The commenter who has not read the post properly, decides they know
what it says anyway, and fires off a series of disgusted observations.
- Commenter who applies the most uncharitable possible interpretation
to the post, and goes straight into rant mode.
- The commenter who takes the opportunity to make some sarcastic
remarks highlighting his (99% of cases are male) own superior
scholarship/intelligence and damning the CT author. “If only Chris has
read the second treatise of Heinrich von Pumpkin in the original
German, he’d be aware ….”
- The commenter who uses every comment as a peg on which to hang his
(yes, “his”) own obsessions about, e.g. analytical philosophy,
populism, Palestine, etc
- The commenter who simply wants to make nasty personal remarks about
the CT author, often about female members of the collective, often
using an alias.







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