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General comment about BGO etiquette

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Thursday, 10 June 2010, at 12:30 a.m.

In Response To: General comment about BGO etiquette (Jason Lee)

Jason Lee wrote:

I think you may have just misinterpreted the tone.

It could be. Certainly, I'm sure no malice was intended. However, if you had that first impression, and I had that impression, then others are going to have that impression, whether it's accurate or not. I think it's worth calling out these subtle and unintentional effects so that people are more conscious of what impressions they're creating.

Maybe... maybe this is because people don't cotton on very well to people who assert technical authority.

Maybe. On the other hand, people don't seem to have trouble kowtowing to those who have demonstrated their superior backgammon skill. I think it's more that people have a strong tendency to evaluate an assertion based on who is saying it and how much they respect that person, rather than on its intrinsic merits. I'm sure that if someone who didn't know me were to go to my website and study my c.v. then they would then start giving more weight to my mathematical assertions than they should.

Now you and I have a problem, since I'm right on your ass in the PostWhore Standings.

1480? Is that all ya got? Is that all ya got?

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