I agreed with your comment (I found it convincing) but downvoted it because if I was a first-time poster here, I would be much less likely to post again after having my first post characterized as foolish.
As one of many “naive functionalists”, I found the OP was very valuable as a challenge to my thinking, and so I want to come down strongly against discouraging such posts in any way.
I agree- the EA community claims to be “open to criticism” but having someone comment that a post is foolish on a first time poster’s well articulated and argued post is quite frankly really disappointing.
In addition, the poster is a professional and has valuable knowledge regardless of how you feel about the merits of their argument.
I’m a university student and run an EA group at my university. I really wish the community would be more open to professionals like this poster who aren’t affiliated with an EA organization, but can contribute different perspectives that aren’t as common within the community.
Ah, I didn’t notice that this was a totally new post! Honestly the writing style and polish felt like such a good match for the Forum, I assumed it must be coming from somebody who posts here all the time. In this new context—sorry, Marcusarvan, for immediately jumping onto a disagreement and not even noticing all the common ground evident via your writing style and EA interests!
I agreed with your comment (I found it convincing) but downvoted it because if I was a first-time poster here, I would be much less likely to post again after having my first post characterized as foolish.
As one of many “naive functionalists”, I found the OP was very valuable as a challenge to my thinking, and so I want to come down strongly against discouraging such posts in any way.
I agree- the EA community claims to be “open to criticism” but having someone comment that a post is foolish on a first time poster’s well articulated and argued post is quite frankly really disappointing.
In addition, the poster is a professional and has valuable knowledge regardless of how you feel about the merits of their argument.
I’m a university student and run an EA group at my university. I really wish the community would be more open to professionals like this poster who aren’t affiliated with an EA organization, but can contribute different perspectives that aren’t as common within the community.
Ah, I didn’t notice that this was a totally new post! Honestly the writing style and polish felt like such a good match for the Forum, I assumed it must be coming from somebody who posts here all the time. In this new context—sorry, Marcusarvan, for immediately jumping onto a disagreement and not even noticing all the common ground evident via your writing style and EA interests!