While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

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You could enrich it by sharing your own knowledge and experience in the field, rather than just smirking at people who know less of the topic than you. :)
 
how is that acting smug?
 
Given your interests in NESing, I'd say that the fascination is far more than just a childhood phase. ;)
 
It is Masada holding his knowledge, and he is widely acknowledged to be one of the, if not the premier economist in our subforum, out of the discussion. Thus, all we get is a deliberately uncapitalized and misspelled statement of general disparagement from someone who could otherwise do a great deal illuminate the situation and provide for further, more informed discussion.

I wouldn't call it smug, but I would call it... the thing that I described in the first paragraph of this post.
 
That makes a lot of assumptions about general economic knowledge on the part of the readership and the minimum degree of effort required to preemptively identify and remediate knowledge gaps. Just because you know something doesn't mean you want to or can explain it effectively or that you're not allowed to throw popcorn from the peanut gallery at a conversation people are clearly taking way too seriously given the medium and stage on which it's happening.
 
Well, if there's an environment debate going on I'm pretty sure that I'd dive in and try to improve the knowledge of people reading the thread. Even if people aren't going to understand what Island Biogeography, r-selection and Grime's Triangle are, I can still shift things down into layman's terms to communicate general ideas.

While it definitely is easier to throw popcorn, I know that I would appreciate an earnest effort to explain why people are mistaken, and what they could do to remedy that lack of knowledge.
 
Not everyone loves teaching other people about a subject even if they love doing it.
 
It doesn't matter if you don't want to teach it. Intruding in a conversation and essentially saying "your all dumm" is the equivalent of playground name-calling. It contributes nothing to a conversation besides the self-gratification of the name-caller.
 
That's the core issue I suppose, rather than whether or not Masada wants to tell people what they're wrong about.
 
I see it more as an observation the conversation wasn't terribly serious, productive, or informative, and in that capacity I'd agree with his point.
 
Yes, just like the horror of someone commenting on it.
 
This is the internet.
 
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