Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter/X, is floating an idea that he's had before to remedy the problem of social media bots: charging people to use social media.
In hind sight, I should have just ignored them and moved on.
At the time I justified it as warrented when responding to a hostile straw man attack.
The parent comment is in no way a reasonable response to merely quoting from a popular children’s book, and actually shows a failure to comprehend the statement quoted.
Having failed to comprehend the text, the commenter then builds a straw man argument, and gets righteously indignant. They then doubled down on the straw man which is why they’re now blocked: I’ve no interest in engaging with a disingenuous commenter.
If the comment had engaged in a reasoned discussion then my response would not have reciprocated the hostility.
There’s no need to be unnecessarily hostile.
In hind sight, I should have just ignored them and moved on.
At the time I justified it as warrented when responding to a hostile straw man attack.
The parent comment is in no way a reasonable response to merely quoting from a popular children’s book, and actually shows a failure to comprehend the statement quoted.
Having failed to comprehend the text, the commenter then builds a straw man argument, and gets righteously indignant. They then doubled down on the straw man which is why they’re now blocked: I’ve no interest in engaging with a disingenuous commenter.
If the comment had engaged in a reasoned discussion then my response would not have reciprocated the hostility.