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by permille42 1978 days ago
There is a big difference between what you communicate broadly as a public figure and random comments under a throwaway.

Linus has said many attacking things publicly under a position of authority.

What I say here bears no weight because if what I say is disliked I am simply downvoted and dismissed.

I disagree that being offensive solves anything. I am fine ( as you've pointed out ) with being extremely offensive and attacking the shit out of anyone I see fit, but I don't think it is particularly effective or a quality trait.

Anytime you say things in an offensive way, you are intentionally being hurtful. This is not a good thing, and I don't think is justifiable.

My doing it in no way makes it right, nor invalidates my judgement of those who make similar statements to a broad audience.

Consider the effect of me ranting here. No one is going to go: "Wow I'd better pay attention to what permille42 says he is an expert. He must be attacking people for a good reason."

Nope. Anytime I rant most readers will just immediately dismiss everything I said, mostly because my tone tends to be so aggressive. I don't think such people are wrong to dismiss as such aggressive statements do tend to be from people who are offbase and don't know what they are talking about...