[throw10920]

> I reads like an unhinged rant about AI

> if one cannot express themselves civilly

It was neither unhinged nor uncivil. Maybe you responded to the wrong comment by accident?

> they have permission to insult someone's competence and work

If it's AI, it's not your work. And even if it was - criticism of your work is not a personal insult. This criticism is flatly invalid.

[user43928]

You think it was civil when the comment started with:

> this post gets me irrationally irritated and makes me want to shake you and shout

Yes, criticism of my work would not generally be a personal insult.

However, if you were to call my work 'slop', and say that I'm either inexperienced or that I'm an 'over-invested-in-AI engineer' we would be having a problem on a personal level. This is not a civil or respectful way to talk to someone.

[throw10920]

> You think it was civil when the comment started with:

>> this post gets me irrationally irritated and makes me want to shake you and shout

Did you read the rest of the comment? The rest of it is civil. It's normal for people to start by saying something like "this makes me frustrated" as a preface to indicate their feelings, and then not actually act frustrated and instead calmly work through their thoughts. That is a meatspace social convention (not just an online one) - are you not aware of it?

> However, if you were to call my work 'slop'

And, as previously established, if you use AI, it's not your work.

> and say that I'm either inexperienced or that I'm an 'over-invested-in-AI engineer' we would be having a problem on a personal level

...and those are still criticisms of your work, not yourself.

The actual problem here is that you are taking offense to things that are not offensive, not that the parent poster was being uncivil. Thinking that calling someone "inexperienced" is a personal insult is absolutely insane. That's a wildly miscalibrated sense of how social dynamics work and what it actually means to insult someone.