[afarrell]

Agreed, and I've just realized the reason why : 1) The portmanteaus are just annoying to read, giving me a negative feeling off the bat and I start searching for flaws to justify it.

2) The portmanteaus are in-jokes for the people who already agree with the author. This makes me think that the author is so focused on their own social bubble that they haven't seriously wrestled with a well-written argument by the other side. If that is the case, then I can't trust the author to not have massively overlooked some important counter argument, so I have to go look for it myself.

3) The same as above, but also: life involves judgement calls and intuitive evaluations of situations. Sometimes, you see interpret another person's words in a way that is wildly detached from what they said. This makes you trust others interpretations less unless you can either see the primary sources yourself, or see them wrestling seriously with the other side's argument.

It would be nice if we judged all arguments just on their facts, but time is limited and so we have to make judgements like these.

[coldpie]

I think one of us is confused. I don't see any portmanteaus in the linked article: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/web_drm_standard_next...