What I observe (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 12:29 (3780 days ago) @ Kermit

For some reason, in his writing Cody is loathe to use the qualifiers that people normally use in conversation to identify opinion on obviously subjective issues. I've heard him argue that the obvious subjectivity involved excuses him from such courtesies, but given the reactions he gets, I don't think that flies.

Cody, your style is appropriate for a pundit, but in this context, where we are trying to have a dialogue, you might try adjusting your approach.

Sure, that happens from time to time. Occasionally he even gets wrongly called out for stating an opinion. But that only happens because his bad behavior is so well known. We all anticipate him to be on his worst behavior with every post he makes. And let's be clear, Cody's problem isn't that he forgets to put "in my opinion" somewhere in a sentence. Or even that he refuses to do so. It's that he has, for years and years, gone out of his way to proclaim, in a knowingly hyperbolic and inflammatory fashion, "truths" and "facts" that he cannot and does not intend to back up. He's not a pundit, he's a troll.

The only way his adjusting his approach would work is if he stopped believing that everyone but him is an idiot and that he alone has the one correct solution to a given problem. Until that happens he's going to keep making his trolling proclamations.