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JG even retweeted ad hominium attacks on JA http://i.imgur.com/tjo9vMg.png http://i.imgur.com/tjo9vMg.png How the Apple fanboy journalist community rallied an
by philoushka 12y ago
JG even retweeted ad hominium attacks on JA
http://i.imgur.com/tjo9vMg.png http://i.imgur.com/tjo9vMg.png
How the Apple fanboy journalist community rallied and circled the wagons was both expected but viscious. Lots of name calling from that side.
- thaumaturgy 12y agoIronically, that wasn't an "ad hominem attack", it was just a plain ol' fashioned insult, which doesn't require a fancypants-sounding Latin label. But, you dismissing Gruber as an "Apple fanboy journalist" is a bit ad-hom. Or, it would be, if this were a formal debate. Which it isn't.
- philoushka 12y agoSo you don't like the words I chose; OK. I wasn't calling JG that, I was calling all those around him in the Apple tech press who also piled on with the insults like "jackass". The point is that one side is name-calling and insulting the other, while the other side is trying to advance a technology for a large number of devs and internet users. I'm just a commenter on HN with little skin in the game, how I conduct myself matters little in this debate. How the primary parties in this story act is important and revealing.
- zak_mc_kracken 12y agoCalling him an "Apple fanboy journalist" isn't an ad hominem attack unless you use that characterization to dismiss something he said. It's just an attack, and a pretty accurate one at that, if you follow his blog. But this is totally unrelated to the immature behavior that he's showing about this whole Markdown drama.
- Ygg2 12y agoIs he a journalist now?
- FireBeyond 12y agoAnd for all their screaming, there has been barely an acknowledgement of the change. Quick to insult, a lot slower when it comes to acknowledging compromise.