Once again you show a complete lack of anything other than shallow understanding and an inability to comprehend simple language. You have, in effect, demonstrated your own affliction with said effect.
Go read the first paragraph on Wikipedia and explain how it supports your faulty logic.
You do exemplify the Dunning Krueger effect of making the same mistake repeatedly
Unfortunately it appears that you have no idea what the Dunning-Kreuger effect actually is. A more thoughtful person would have taken the time to research the cognitive bias before accusing another of same.
Nice fail. Perhaps you'd like to try again my clumsy, uneducated friend?
Typical, shallow, childish APK response: No I don't! You do!
So then, if you are so sure of yourself then why don't you, without abuse and ad hominen, prove my arguments invalid?
After all this you still haven't made a single valid point or managed to rebut any of mine. You've already demonstrated that any idiot can fling faeces and you've shown over and over again that this is the extent of your linguistic abilities.
Hint: this if your cue to post the list (again) and claim victory. Victorious APK! All hail the king of debate! The lord of language! The emperor of eloquence!
Really? Prove it. You are the one who cannot understand a simple argument. You have failed again to even attempt to address my comments or rebut my points. You have predictably responded with more ad hominen and absolutely nothing new. Obviously your sickness is completely in charge of you.
Furthermore, amusingly, you've also made a bunch of very clumsy anonymous coward posts to support your own opinion, childishly trying to make it look like you have some support and exactly that which you accuse me of doing. You really take the cake for hypocrisy my very young friend. Face it, APK, you can't take the heat, so you need to get out of the kitchen. You just don't measure up, not even to the very low standards of Slashdot, O duke of the frequent downmod. You are indeed very ill. Your screeds of rant are are worthless use of electrons and as devoid of rational thought as everything else you post.
You just aren't up to the task of intelligent debate, I pity you. No amount of ranting by way of response will change anything, you have lost this battle. You lose,
APK, and the best bit is that you seem genuinely unaware of your own handicaps. The only achievement you have managed is to be even more vilified than our old companion twitter. Congratulations! You lose!
I agree that were someone arguing "245 people are wrong despite your evidence and I'm right," would probably piss me off too. However, in honesty, I'm not arguing that at all. I completely agree that (at least) 245 times in the past, one or more people have found your post to be worth moderating up. I'd wager there are actually even more than that. You'll note that nowhere have I called you stupid throughout our little discussion.
My point is that when the argument between us boils down to my assertion that (I summarise) your posts are long-winded and unpleasant to read, you cannot hold up the 245-people list on its own as evidence to the contrary. It's valid, but it tells only half the story and by failing to back it up it effectively becomes a lie by omission. I purport that to accept such a list at face value as fact - as you ask me to do - would be to legitimise a faulty confirmation bias
For your argument to hold water, you would need to show:
- that each of these 245 instances of up-moderation are unique individuals and not just a small group of people modding you up over the time period your list covers (note that I certainly accept these are 245 instances of up-moderation)
- a corresponding list covering the same time period with every down-moderation of your posts accounted for
- a direct comparison showing a positive moderation balance in your favour
Such a thing would be nicely handled by/.'s karma system, were you to create an account and log in. This would automatically provide instant recognition of the contribution your posts make to/. and I believe you know it only too well. I suspect you post AC because any account you create would be driven into negative karma fairly quickly. As you know, the/. moderation mechanism helps the keep noise out of the system. Slashdot posters have consistently moderated your posts as noise, so I make the argument that on-balance, your contributions to/. are of no value.
Don't take my word for it, go follow each of your links and have a look at some of the comments following your post. They speak far louder about the way you are perceived by Slashdot than a shortlist of occasional up-moderations of posts spanning a period of eight years for goodness sake! Here's an example:
moderation (Score:5, Funny)
by mevets (322601) Alter Relationship on 5:12 Wednesday 13 April 2011 (#35794934)
Really we need more categories.
+1 incoherent
+1 too many ellipses
+1 imaginative use of mixed case
+1 disturbing
+1 peculiar
+1 could be charlie sheen
Agreed - that's just one example (amusingly, the first one I picked at random) however you don't need to dig too deep to see there are plenty more.
It's easy to see how you are so impressed with yourself, when considering your modus operandi:
1. Spout repetitive and uninteresting rubbish until you get modded down
2. Whine about how it's so very unfair to poor little APK. Blame everyone but self.
3. Respond by ignoring questions that pull the guts out of your own argument
4. Claim victory.
5. Respond by further failing to understand even the simplest of arguments (but not to worry, use shouting and childish insults), begin chest-thumping and self-preening stage. Ignore questions that damage your argument, claim victory again.
6. Add 'victory' to high-score list that only a madman would maintain.
It's easy to be victorious when the battles you win are all inside your head. As for our discussion, you haven't even managed to take a swing yet! Get on to some meds, pal, your life will be a whole lot better and you won't be compelled to keep ridiculous lists as you do in your current obsessive-compulsive pattern.
He proves the Dunning-Kruger effect by his inability to learn from his mistakes shown below & repeating them:
"If wishes were horses then beggars would ride," or so the old saying goes. You may wish for a thing to be, but this does not necessarily make it so. Unless, of course, the wisher is schizophrenic and doesn't really understand his own words, let alone those of other people. The more you ramble, the more obvious it is to everyone, APK.
How can you claim to have won the argument if you can't provide an intelligent answer to even the simplest of questions posed? If you're so assured of yourself and your towering victory over me, why are you unable to address my question regarding your little list and your inability to understand the concept of confirmation bias? All you've done is evade the question, spitting out screeds of unrelated rubbish as incontrovertible evidence of your success. WTF?
When you can come up with a coherent rebuttal to my arguments I will take your posts seriously. Until then, you are only trumpeting your ignorance.
What on earth are you on about? Have you forgotten (in your flaccidity) that we are merely exchanging words on the Internet?
There are no physical weapons here beyond our written word. By your colourful language and expansive metaphors you betray yourself as unable to separate reality from the fiction that runs your head. How many more obvious signs of your mental illness do you need pointed out to you before you'll even consider the truth?
You can only start making progress with your disease if you admit the truth of its existence, APK.
He's shown the crowd here says he posts well http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and all you have's your offtopic trolling. Nothing of value. In case you haven't noticed, you're outnumbered 245 to 1 and what you have is ad hominem attacks on his mental state which you are not qualified to judge by any means.
Is it purely for my own amusement, APK, that you find yourself compelled to carry out the very act you accuse me of? Otherwise, this would appear to make you a hypocrite, at least according to my understanding of the word.
Either way, you're lulz-a-minute according to my camp, keep 'em coming!:-)
Now, what was that YOU SAID about "hypocrisy", idiot?
Oh I almost forgot, this was my favourite bit! You couldn't have pulled it off more neatly and you don't even see it!
Explanation for you APK: you accused me of ad hominen, I said that was hypocritical because you have proven your inability to make an argument without ad hominen. Naturally, your response was to instead accuse me of hypocrisy (not much imagination going on here) but then you added an ad hominen attack! Isn't it just gorgeous?
What's even more delicious is that even after having the details spelled out for you as I have done, you won't accept them because your madness is in control of you. You are the one that has to live with that in your head whilst I enjoy a normal life. I have especially enjoyed watching you unwittingly rant yourself into a frenzy of spittle for my entertainment.
I'm sure I'll get some great mileage out of you my good friend.:-)
Hmm, it's obvious now that you're not able to break out of your schizophrenic circle.
I'm not sure there's much to be gained from attempting to explore this further. You seem to be unreasonable, irrational and clearly mentally incapable of holding a coherent thread or even attempting to logically rebut an argument. That said, I wasn't expecting much more, but I'll admit to being a little disappointed that you really are as two-dimensional as you appear. I'm glad I took this time to understand you better, it has been an interesting experiment and thanks for playing.
Oh, I know, this won't be the end of it for you by a long shot. I'm fully expecting you to howl on and on because you genuinely think that you have beaten me.
Shot me down. In flames. KILLED me. Forced me to eat my words. Called me out with my foot in my mouth, etc.
I like that you think that, I understand that you can't conceive of anything outside of this simplistic dualism of yours and I really wouldn't have it any other way. Where'd be the fun in that?:-)
"You keep ignoring the substance of my posts and respond with the same faulty logic." - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Sunday January 27, @05:36PM (#42710485) Homepage
Yea, ok... "Riiiiggghhhttt" (sarcasm) - answer the question above & do the math, & tell us another one... lol!
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What math would you have me do? What question would you have me answer? That 243 > 1? If so, you have once again failed to understand my very simple point, made when you first trotted that list out. I'll spell it out for you again: your list is statistically irrelevant because you have provided no basis of comparison. In its present form it proves nothing but your own confirmation bias. Why do you continue to fail to understand this simple point?
It's not even an "argument" when you killed yourself from the very start... see the link above, "rinse, lather, & repeat", troll!
LMAO, I mean, seriously - you made MY point for me, see link above - YOU CAN'T EVEN FACE YOU ARE OUTNUMBERED vs. YOUR OPINION of my posts, vs. your/. peers opinions I can post in seconds to dust you with them...
Thanks, I suppose, for MAKING ME LOOK GOOD, every single time you try this crap!
Again, you just don't get it. I'm happy to face whatever actual truth you can come up with. What you still aren't getting is that when you compare apples to oranges and claim victory, you prove nothing besides your own lack of understanding. Lol indeed.
Nothing painstaking about it -/.'ers did it for me & yes, I need to repeat it - so it "sinks in" & pisses you off SO BADLY, you *try* to get in "the last word" so I just toss your own FAIL back in your face - yes, it's THAT simple, & you made it so... lol!
Tell me more about this fantasy world of yours, where people take your silly remarks seriously enough to actually get upset? The only times you've irritated me is when you pop into a worthwhile discussion spouting your stupidity and childishness, disrupting the conversation. That's when you're just a distraction, like a mosquito. You'll note I don't generally try to argue with you in those circumstances. It seems you're determined to be too simplistic to differentiate the two. Do you also have trouble with reality when watching TV shows and movies? Have you ever thought you might be Jesus? I wouldn't be surprised.
I see NO REAL BENEFIT in "chasing karma points" & IF/WHEN I have something nice to say to others? I do it directly, via replies to their posts when & where appropriate... so, what's YOUR point?
... apk
Who said anything about karma?
There are plenty of other benefits to using a registered account on/. - you can look them up yourself. I think the real reason is that you'd end up posting at -1 rather than 0 as you do when AC, because the/. crowd would very promptly show you exactly how valuable your contributions really are.
You don't want to log in because then you'd have to face the reality that despite your silly little list, the majority here find you tiresome and an extreme bore. Facing reality isn't your strong suit, so here we are. Still.
Well done, you missed the point again. If you look back through your responses I think you'll find it is you who comes across as the one who relies upon ad hominen to make your points.
Do yourself a favor - realize this: You're VERY EASY to outthink, outsmart, & yes, outclass...
I'm curious, how do you consider yourself to have outclassed me when you have failed to provide meaningful answers beyond screeds of name-calling and other childishness?
Was it when you called me illiterate and I responded with a reasoned argument that you couldn't get your head around?
Was it when you accused me of off-topic ad hominen and I simply referred you to your own foul-mouth ravings in this very thread? You responded by bringing in older posts unrelated to this discussion. How does this make you any less of a hypocrite? Oh wait, you don't know, because your rational thought is drowned out by your madness. Do you really feel you outclass me when anyone can see you have a very basic level of reading and writing comprehension? I very obviously have a far better command of the English language than you yourself do, yet you choose to blatantly and shamefully ignore this and go on to ice the cake by calling me illiterate. The only logical conclusion I can draw is that your madness is fouling up your reasoning. Again.
Oh, and as for accusing me of posting AC in the middle of this discussion, perhaps with your self-described mental prowess you can explain why I would choose to do so? As you are aware I am quite capable of calling you names and will happily do so if it suits my purposes; I need no AC to back me up. Your posts are modded down by the/. community in nearly every case and after all your years of contribution you have amassed only a small list of contrary examples. You seal your incompetence by then claiming (Pyrrhic) victory over me with this and seem incapable of understanding how feeble this makes you look.
The collecting of unrelated pieces of information and the evaluation of this information as the basis for conspiracy is simply another example of your insanity. Keep 'em coming!
Oh, and why don't you have an account? Why do you post AC?
You keep ignoring the substance of my posts and respond with the same faulty logic. Do you really need to further prove that you are incapable of coherent argument? I think you've made that point by now.
In failing to respond and continuing to claim your irrelevant rantings as 'blowing me away' whilst ignoring my points and shying away from my questions, you confirm your lack of ability to meaningfully engage in discussion.
In particular, you have no response to my arguments regarding your repeated use of the 244:1 list you have so painstakingly constructed. Furthermore, you then hold this silliness up as some sort of victory, further evidence of your mental incompetence.
Oh, and by the way, what's the deal with your account/AC status?
You are now displaying yet another sign of insanity: the inability to recognise one's own hypocrisy. Do you even remember who was calling who names throughout every post? Do you remember?
No, of course you don't. It never happened, did it, because you are schizophrenic. You've disassociated yourself with reality because you can't face it. Look at your posts - nothing but the same slathering ramblings repeated over and over. You can't face my questions any more than you can form a cogent argument. Well done, APK, you've proven my point again, again, again and again; you need some help.
You are simply not capable of holding a coherent discussion. Admit it, your brain is simply not up to the task. This is no longer opinion, you have provided us with clear evidence: look at your last few posts to me - you are incapable of engaging in intelligent discourse.
Your level of fail is beyond epic and of truly impressive proportions. Your fail-worthiness is all the more delicious because this is how you attack other people! HAHA! I love it! Don't forget to accuse me of projection now! Keep the belly-laughs coming!
Oh, and by the way, why don't you answer my question regarding your account/AC status?
Yes, yes, nice rant. You can go on to claim you 'shot me down in flames' if you like, but you're seemingly incapable of addressing the point I raise. Show me I'm wrong without the spittle flying, please - I'm all ears.
You suggest that I am guilty of libel because I believe you to be mentally ill, because I am not qualified to diagnose your condition. That is a specious argument that once again shows your lack of rationality. Would you argue that one needs to be a chicken to know a bad egg? That one need be a microprocessor engineer to operate a computer? I would think not, however I imagine you'll have come up with some interesting mental gymnastics in an attempt to demonstrate the invalidity of the argument, as is typical of someone suffering some form of schizophrenia. Your online behaviour can be seen by all for the erratic foolishness it is. (This is your cue to bring up your '244' examples without really understanding your own argument; you may then of course chalk this up to another of your 'down in flames' moments of fantasy you seem to enjoy so much)
I see you also like to call me 'illiterate', yet the very fact that I can read, understand and question you about your name-calling seems to escape you. Once again you demonstrate the dead-end, circular logic that smacks of mental instability. Perhaps you are yourself projecting here? I suggest you consult a dictionary on the use of the word to avoid future embarrassment.
The way you consider your word-salad wailings to be a 'victory' is a great source of personal enjoyment for me. I encourage you to continue believing that you leave your adversaries with the 'bitter taste of defeat' and keep the lulz coming.
Oh and finally, why don't you answer my question regarding your account/AC status?
PS: In all honesty I don't 'troll' you as AC. I call you out as myself when I find one of your little spasms too irresistible to pass up.
Heh, I think I probably deserve this one. Apparently APK didn't take too kindly to being genuinely responded to when he asked why he was being downmodded. I'll have to remember to keep my comments strictly abusive when replying to him in future!
Serves me right for poking at it with a stick I guess.
Without a matching list of posts from people who do not share your inflated opinion of yourself, the above lists are little more than confirmation bias on your part.
Please continue calling me names and saying silly things. I quite enjoy how it weakens your argument and supports my supposition that you are mentally ill and in need of help.
Oh and out of curiosity, why don't you have a/. account? Why post as AC? Are you behind a corporate firewall perhaps?
I have no modpoints so I thought I'd write you a genuine response to your question. For the record, I seldom moderate your posts.
You have had it repeatedly explained to you that your posts are long-winded, unpleasant to read due to your absurd formatting style and full of technical inaccuracies borne of your single minded i-have-a-hammer-so-every-problem-is-a-nail attitude.
Despite this advice you are convinced that your comments are valuable contributions, ignoring the obvious evidence to the contrary (namely the -1 scores your posts earn on a regular basis).
I posit that/. readers do not actively dislike you so much as find what you post tiresome and not worth the effort to read or respond to. Posting as anonymous so I can't see your response without monitoring the thread doesn't help your case either.
I have been here before, many many times with many many different bargain-basement networking devices and I feel for you. Crap that was purchased by someone clueless in the extended family ("but, it came with a rebate!") who expects it set up for free because 'You're a computer guy, I don't understand this techie shit, it's not hard for you, can't you just set it up for me?'.
So not only do you struggle with the crap gear they bought, waste hours of time feeling frustrated and even get to the point where you start to lose confidence in your own abilities, but you get to suffer the derision of people who know nothing about the details but still feel qualified to judge you as inept.
Then, later, for someone else; but this time they're content to leave the purchasing decisions in your hands as well. Subsequently, inexpensive but good-quality gear goes in, network is set up without any problems and you leave as the hero.
I don't do freebies any more, because I value my free time, because people paying for your services generally appreciate your efforts more and finally because I learnt the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished.
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Once again you show a complete lack of anything other than shallow understanding and an inability to comprehend simple language. You have, in effect, demonstrated your own affliction with said effect.
Go read the first paragraph on Wikipedia and explain how it supports your faulty logic.
You do exemplify the Dunning Krueger effect of making the same mistake repeatedly
Unfortunately it appears that you have no idea what the Dunning-Kreuger effect actually is. A more thoughtful person would have taken the time to research the cognitive bias before accusing another of same.
Nice fail. Perhaps you'd like to try again my clumsy, uneducated friend?
Typical, shallow, childish APK response: No I don't! You do!
So then, if you are so sure of yourself then why don't you, without abuse and ad hominen, prove my arguments invalid?
After all this you still haven't made a single valid point or managed to rebut any of mine. You've already demonstrated that any idiot can fling faeces and you've shown over and over again that this is the extent of your linguistic abilities.
Hint: this if your cue to post the list (again) and claim victory. Victorious APK! All hail the king of debate! The lord of language! The emperor of eloquence!
Really? Prove it. You are the one who cannot understand a simple argument. You have failed again to even attempt to address my comments or rebut my points. You have predictably responded with more ad hominen and absolutely nothing new. Obviously your sickness is completely in charge of you.
Furthermore, amusingly, you've also made a bunch of very clumsy anonymous coward posts to support your own opinion, childishly trying to make it look like you have some support and exactly that which you accuse me of doing. You really take the cake for hypocrisy my very young friend. Face it, APK, you can't take the heat, so you need to get out of the kitchen. You just don't measure up, not even to the very low standards of Slashdot, O duke of the frequent downmod. You are indeed very ill. Your screeds of rant are are worthless use of electrons and as devoid of rational thought as everything else you post.
You just aren't up to the task of intelligent debate, I pity you. No amount of ranting by way of response will change anything, you have lost this battle. You lose, APK, and the best bit is that you seem genuinely unaware of your own handicaps. The only achievement you have managed is to be even more vilified than our old companion twitter. Congratulations! You lose!
Answer me this. You say 245 people here are wrong and you're right http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 ?
Thank you, I applaud you for stepping up.
I agree that were someone arguing "245 people are wrong despite your evidence and I'm right," would probably piss me off too. However, in honesty, I'm not arguing that at all. I completely agree that (at least) 245 times in the past, one or more people have found your post to be worth moderating up. I'd wager there are actually even more than that. You'll note that nowhere have I called you stupid throughout our little discussion.
My point is that when the argument between us boils down to my assertion that (I summarise) your posts are long-winded and unpleasant to read, you cannot hold up the 245-people list on its own as evidence to the contrary. It's valid, but it tells only half the story and by failing to back it up it effectively becomes a lie by omission. I purport that to accept such a list at face value as fact - as you ask me to do - would be to legitimise a faulty confirmation bias
For your argument to hold water, you would need to show:
Such a thing would be nicely handled by /.'s karma system, were you to create an account and log in. This would automatically provide instant recognition of the contribution your posts make to /. and I believe you know it only too well. I suspect you post AC because any account you create would be driven into negative karma fairly quickly. As you know, the /. moderation mechanism helps the keep noise out of the system. Slashdot posters have consistently moderated your posts as noise, so I make the argument that on-balance, your contributions to /. are of no value.
Don't take my word for it, go follow each of your links and have a look at some of the comments following your post. They speak far louder about the way you are perceived by Slashdot than a shortlist of occasional up-moderations of posts spanning a period of eight years for goodness sake! Here's an example:
In response to DATASTRUCTURES & SQL:2011 -> http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2080454&cid=35794668 [slashdot.org], from your list:
moderation (Score:5, Funny)
by mevets (322601) Alter Relationship on 5:12 Wednesday 13 April 2011 (#35794934)
Really we need more categories.
+1 incoherent
+1 too many ellipses
+1 imaginative use of mixed case
+1 disturbing
+1 peculiar
+1 could be charlie sheen
Agreed - that's just one example (amusingly, the first one I picked at random) however you don't need to dig too deep to see there are plenty more.
It's easy to see how you are so impressed with yourself, when considering your modus operandi:
It's easy to be victorious when the battles you win are all inside your head. As for our discussion, you haven't even managed to take a swing yet! Get on to some meds, pal, your life will be a whole lot better and you won't be compelled to keep ridiculous lists as you do in your current obsessive-compulsive pattern.
He proves the Dunning-Kruger effect by his inability to learn from his mistakes shown below & repeating them:
"If wishes were horses then beggars would ride," or so the old saying goes. You may wish for a thing to be, but this does not necessarily make it so. Unless, of course, the wisher is schizophrenic and doesn't really understand his own words, let alone those of other people. The more you ramble, the more obvious it is to everyone, APK.
How can you claim to have won the argument if you can't provide an intelligent answer to even the simplest of questions posed? If you're so assured of yourself and your towering victory over me, why are you unable to address my question regarding your little list and your inability to understand the concept of confirmation bias? All you've done is evade the question, spitting out screeds of unrelated rubbish as incontrovertible evidence of your success. WTF?
When you can come up with a coherent rebuttal to my arguments I will take your posts seriously. Until then, you are only trumpeting your ignorance.
Nuked?
What on earth are you on about? Have you forgotten (in your flaccidity) that we are merely exchanging words on the Internet?
There are no physical weapons here beyond our written word. By your colourful language and expansive metaphors you betray yourself as unable to separate reality from the fiction that runs your head. How many more obvious signs of your mental illness do you need pointed out to you before you'll even consider the truth?
You can only start making progress with your disease if you admit the truth of its existence, APK.
That list of his is more than you have by far. You're an idiot troll.
Hmm, I do wonder exactly who this clever character could be, he who assails me out of nowhere to defend the good character of his colleague APK?
I love your style my friend, you keep me smiling. :)
He's shown the crowd here says he posts well http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3406867&cid=42701491 and all you have's your offtopic trolling. Nothing of value. In case you haven't noticed, you're outnumbered 245 to 1 and what you have is ad hominem attacks on his mental state which you are not qualified to judge by any means.
Is it purely for my own amusement, APK, that you find yourself compelled to carry out the very act you accuse me of? Otherwise, this would appear to make you a hypocrite, at least according to my understanding of the word.
Either way, you're lulz-a-minute according to my camp, keep 'em coming! :-)
Now, what was that YOU SAID about "hypocrisy", idiot?
Oh I almost forgot, this was my favourite bit! You couldn't have pulled it off more neatly and you don't even see it!
Explanation for you APK: you accused me of ad hominen, I said that was hypocritical because you have proven your inability to make an argument without ad hominen. Naturally, your response was to instead accuse me of hypocrisy (not much imagination going on here) but then you added an ad hominen attack! Isn't it just gorgeous?
What's even more delicious is that even after having the details spelled out for you as I have done, you won't accept them because your madness is in control of you. You are the one that has to live with that in your head whilst I enjoy a normal life. I have especially enjoyed watching you unwittingly rant yourself into a frenzy of spittle for my entertainment.
I'm sure I'll get some great mileage out of you my good friend. :-)
Hmm, it's obvious now that you're not able to break out of your schizophrenic circle.
I'm not sure there's much to be gained from attempting to explore this further. You seem to be unreasonable, irrational and clearly mentally incapable of holding a coherent thread or even attempting to logically rebut an argument. That said, I wasn't expecting much more, but I'll admit to being a little disappointed that you really are as two-dimensional as you appear. I'm glad I took this time to understand you better, it has been an interesting experiment and thanks for playing.
Oh, I know, this won't be the end of it for you by a long shot. I'm fully expecting you to howl on and on because you genuinely think that you have beaten me.
Shot me down. In flames.
KILLED me.
Forced me to eat my words.
Called me out with my foot in my mouth, etc.
I like that you think that, I understand that you can't conceive of anything outside of this simplistic dualism of yours and I really wouldn't have it any other way. Where'd be the fun in that? :-)
"You keep ignoring the substance of my posts and respond with the same faulty logic." - by Sardaukar86 (850333) on Sunday January 27, @05:36PM (#42710485) Homepage
Yea, ok... "Riiiiggghhhttt" (sarcasm) - answer the question above & do the math, & tell us another one... lol!
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What math would you have me do? What question would you have me answer? That 243 > 1? If so, you have once again failed to understand my very simple point, made when you first trotted that list out. I'll spell it out for you again: your list is statistically irrelevant because you have provided no basis of comparison. In its present form it proves nothing but your own confirmation bias. Why do you continue to fail to understand this simple point?
It's not even an "argument" when you killed yourself from the very start... see the link above, "rinse, lather, & repeat", troll!
LMAO, I mean, seriously - you made MY point for me, see link above - YOU CAN'T EVEN FACE YOU ARE OUTNUMBERED vs. YOUR OPINION of my posts, vs. your /. peers opinions I can post in seconds to dust you with them...
Thanks, I suppose, for MAKING ME LOOK GOOD, every single time you try this crap!
Again, you just don't get it. I'm happy to face whatever actual truth you can come up with. What you still aren't getting is that when you compare apples to oranges and claim victory, you prove nothing besides your own lack of understanding. Lol indeed.
Nothing painstaking about it - /.'ers did it for me & yes, I need to repeat it - so it "sinks in" & pisses you off SO BADLY, you *try* to get in "the last word" so I just toss your own FAIL back in your face - yes, it's THAT simple, & you made it so... lol!
Tell me more about this fantasy world of yours, where people take your silly remarks seriously enough to actually get upset? The only times you've irritated me is when you pop into a worthwhile discussion spouting your stupidity and childishness, disrupting the conversation. That's when you're just a distraction, like a mosquito. You'll note I don't generally try to argue with you in those circumstances. It seems you're determined to be too simplistic to differentiate the two. Do you also have trouble with reality when watching TV shows and movies? Have you ever thought you might be Jesus? I wouldn't be surprised.
I see NO REAL BENEFIT in "chasing karma points" & IF/WHEN I have something nice to say to others? I do it directly, via replies to their posts when & where appropriate... so, what's YOUR point?
... apk
Who said anything about karma?
There are plenty of other benefits to using a registered account on /. - you can look them up yourself. I think the real reason is that you'd end up posting at -1 rather than 0 as you do when AC, because the /. crowd would very promptly show you exactly how valuable your contributions really are.
You don't want to log in because then you'd have to face the reality that despite your silly little list, the majority here find you tiresome and an extreme bore. Facing reality isn't your strong suit, so here we are. Still.
Well done, you missed the point again. If you look back through your responses I think you'll find it is you who comes across as the one who relies upon ad hominen to make your points.
Do yourself a favor - realize this: You're VERY EASY to outthink, outsmart, & yes, outclass...
I'm curious, how do you consider yourself to have outclassed me when you have failed to provide meaningful answers beyond screeds of name-calling and other childishness?
Was it when you called me illiterate and I responded with a reasoned argument that you couldn't get your head around?
Was it when you accused me of off-topic ad hominen and I simply referred you to your own foul-mouth ravings in this very thread? You responded by bringing in older posts unrelated to this discussion. How does this make you any less of a hypocrite? Oh wait, you don't know, because your rational thought is drowned out by your madness. Do you really feel you outclass me when anyone can see you have a very basic level of reading and writing comprehension? I very obviously have a far better command of the English language than you yourself do, yet you choose to blatantly and shamefully ignore this and go on to ice the cake by calling me illiterate. The only logical conclusion I can draw is that your madness is fouling up your reasoning. Again.
Oh, and as for accusing me of posting AC in the middle of this discussion, perhaps with your self-described mental prowess you can explain why I would choose to do so? As you are aware I am quite capable of calling you names and will happily do so if it suits my purposes; I need no AC to back me up. Your posts are modded down by the /. community in nearly every case and after all your years of contribution you have amassed only a small list of contrary examples. You seal your incompetence by then claiming (Pyrrhic) victory over me with this and seem incapable of understanding how feeble this makes you look.
The collecting of unrelated pieces of information and the evaluation of this information as the basis for conspiracy is simply another example of your insanity. Keep 'em coming!
Oh, and why don't you have an account? Why do you post AC?
You keep ignoring the substance of my posts and respond with the same faulty logic. Do you really need to further prove that you are incapable of coherent argument? I think you've made that point by now.
In failing to respond and continuing to claim your irrelevant rantings as 'blowing me away' whilst ignoring my points and shying away from my questions, you confirm your lack of ability to meaningfully engage in discussion.
In particular, you have no response to my arguments regarding your repeated use of the 244:1 list you have so painstakingly constructed. Furthermore, you then hold this silliness up as some sort of victory, further evidence of your mental incompetence.
Oh, and by the way, what's the deal with your account/AC status?
You are now displaying yet another sign of insanity: the inability to recognise one's own hypocrisy. Do you even remember who was calling who names throughout every post? Do you remember?
No, of course you don't. It never happened, did it, because you are schizophrenic. You've disassociated yourself with reality because you can't face it. Look at your posts - nothing but the same slathering ramblings repeated over and over. You can't face my questions any more than you can form a cogent argument. Well done, APK, you've proven my point again, again, again and again; you need some help.
You are simply not capable of holding a coherent discussion. Admit it, your brain is simply not up to the task. This is no longer opinion, you have provided us with clear evidence: look at your last few posts to me - you are incapable of engaging in intelligent discourse.
Your level of fail is beyond epic and of truly impressive proportions. Your fail-worthiness is all the more delicious because this is how you attack other people! HAHA! I love it! Don't forget to accuse me of projection now! Keep the belly-laughs coming!
Oh, and by the way, why don't you answer my question regarding your account/AC status?
LMAO - "Inquiring minds want to know"...
Yours is a diseased mind. You simply cannot answer my questions and in failing to do so have proven my prediction correct. You walked right into it.
I'm sorry, but (in your words) you fail.
Yes, yes, nice rant. You can go on to claim you 'shot me down in flames' if you like, but you're seemingly incapable of addressing the point I raise. Show me I'm wrong without the spittle flying, please - I'm all ears.
You suggest that I am guilty of libel because I believe you to be mentally ill, because I am not qualified to diagnose your condition. That is a specious argument that once again shows your lack of rationality. Would you argue that one needs to be a chicken to know a bad egg? That one need be a microprocessor engineer to operate a computer? I would think not, however I imagine you'll have come up with some interesting mental gymnastics in an attempt to demonstrate the invalidity of the argument, as is typical of someone suffering some form of schizophrenia. Your online behaviour can be seen by all for the erratic foolishness it is. (This is your cue to bring up your '244' examples without really understanding your own argument; you may then of course chalk this up to another of your 'down in flames' moments of fantasy you seem to enjoy so much)
I see you also like to call me 'illiterate', yet the very fact that I can read, understand and question you about your name-calling seems to escape you. Once again you demonstrate the dead-end, circular logic that smacks of mental instability. Perhaps you are yourself projecting here? I suggest you consult a dictionary on the use of the word to avoid future embarrassment.
The way you consider your word-salad wailings to be a 'victory' is a great source of personal enjoyment for me. I encourage you to continue believing that you leave your adversaries with the 'bitter taste of defeat' and keep the lulz coming.
Oh and finally, why don't you answer my question regarding your account/AC status?
PS: In all honesty I don't 'troll' you as AC. I call you out as myself when I find one of your little spasms too irresistible to pass up.
Heh, I think I probably deserve this one. Apparently APK didn't take too kindly to being genuinely responded to when he asked why he was being downmodded. I'll have to remember to keep my comments strictly abusive when replying to him in future!
Serves me right for poking at it with a stick I guess.
Without a matching list of posts from people who do not share your inflated opinion of yourself, the above lists are little more than confirmation bias on your part.
Please continue calling me names and saying silly things. I quite enjoy how it weakens your argument and supports my supposition that you are mentally ill and in need of help.
Oh and out of curiosity, why don't you have a /. account? Why post as AC? Are you behind a corporate firewall perhaps?
My god, you really are completely beyond hope. Seldom have I seen someone with such an enormously high opinion of themselves.
There's clearly something very wrong with your brain.
Same here. However, seeing how humans tend to run their relationships, I consider it a feature rather than a bug.
Most underrated post in this thread!! :-)
I have no modpoints so I thought I'd write you a genuine response to your question. For the record, I seldom moderate your posts.
You have had it repeatedly explained to you that your posts are long-winded, unpleasant to read due to your absurd formatting style and full of technical inaccuracies borne of your single minded i-have-a-hammer-so-every-problem-is-a-nail attitude.
Despite this advice you are convinced that your comments are valuable contributions, ignoring the obvious evidence to the contrary (namely the -1 scores your posts earn on a regular basis).
I posit that /. readers do not actively dislike you so much as find what you post tiresome and not worth the effort to read or respond to. Posting as anonymous so I can't see your response without monitoring the thread doesn't help your case either.
I have been here before, many many times with many many different bargain-basement networking devices and I feel for you. Crap that was purchased by someone clueless in the extended family ("but, it came with a rebate!") who expects it set up for free because 'You're a computer guy, I don't understand this techie shit, it's not hard for you, can't you just set it up for me?'.
So not only do you struggle with the crap gear they bought, waste hours of time feeling frustrated and even get to the point where you start to lose confidence in your own abilities, but you get to suffer the derision of people who know nothing about the details but still feel qualified to judge you as inept.
Then, later, for someone else; but this time they're content to leave the purchasing decisions in your hands as well. Subsequently, inexpensive but good-quality gear goes in, network is set up without any problems and you leave as the hero.
I don't do freebies any more, because I value my free time, because people paying for your services generally appreciate your efforts more and finally because I learnt the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished.