On Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 04:12:33 UTC, BS wrote:
An important aspect in developing anything is a forum where
people can destroy ideas and opinions clearly and succinctly
without fear of the destroyed taking it personally.
Technical arguments, and counter-arguments, are best when they
stick to the point without fear of the other being overly
precious.
Andrei was *not* rude, he simply showed cases where he
disagreed with your post and gave reasonable arguments as to
why. In no way did he make any personal remark about you or
your intelligence. If you choose to take it personally because
he disagreed with you then it is not his fault, nor his problem.
You either counter-destroy, with a more solid set of arguments
and examples, or you accept their case and move onto the next
difficult problem.
However, if the remarks were personal and of the order "You are
clearly stupid mate. Everyone knows ABCD 1234!" then it would
be rude and I could understand your discontent.
There is a clear difference.
I should add D.learn is often less abrupt than this forum,
especially if you're just finding your feet in D.
Here it is often assumed that posters are OK if their arguments
are shot down in flames. It is used as a technical discussion
forum for new ideas driving the language forward. That sort of
work has to be nutted out without tiptoeing around each other.
BUT, I reiterate, it doesn't mean posters are attachking others
personally. I have rarely seen that behaviour on the D forums.
