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by dchest 5518 days ago
You argue that spacing produces clutter

"You argue"?

Clutter means (let me open the dictionary) "a collection of things lying about in an untidy mass".

I never said only spacing produces clutter. Either I'm not explaining myself clearly or you read something that was not in my comment (this is called a strawman, right?)

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I never said you are completely, objectively wrong. I just disagreed with a point.. On that note, I see nothing untidy.

No hostility meant by "you argue". You provided a critique, an argument. I'd open the dictionary... ;)

You disagreed with the point which I never made ("spacing produces clutter"), putting words into my mouth ("you argue").
You mentioned visual clutter, and then your first bullet point was about too much spacing. Clutter--according to the OS X dictionary you cited earlier--refers to a jumble or tangle of items, implying that they are close together. That's the discrepancy he was referring to.

His posts were completely non-hostile, so aren't you overreacting?

You come off as far more angry than is warranted for this conversation.