Powayseller kinda sorta does have a point here, but she also needs to realize that people regularly present very good arguments against her points and she chooses to not listen quite often.
This choice – on her part – tends to bring in more personal comments than are acceptable.
But – to her point, when people are presenting such points, there are often little personal barbs attached to them.
The issue is exacerbated by the fact that powayseller doesn’t take the time to listen and learn from the points against her arguments, she only sees the personal barbs and reacts to those, with the assumption that any argument with personal attacks cannot possibly be a valid analytical argument.
Then, we just have a mess. We have some people pointing out how closed-minded she is, some people pointing out a problem with her analysis and some people pointing out how she is reacting to the personal comments.
Take This thread for example. The complaint was simple – that she spun the article into a title which was very mirepresentative of a) reality and b) the quanitative (corrected) intent of the article.
Powayseller’s best response would have been:
“Yes – I understand what you mean. I took the words ‘at risk’ to mean ‘100% chance of foreclosure’ when in fact ‘at risk’ means some chance of foreclosure, maybe around 10% so my title is a little too aggressive.”
Wow. That would have been impressive, but she couldn’t pull it off. Instead she defended the major blunder of her title. Why? I have no idea. Was it the personal comment by Daniel? Perhaps.
Fact of the matter is – woodrow did a great job of pointing out that powayseller’s title misrepresented the article, and didn’t attack powayseller personally. Powayseller did a crappy job of defending herself against woodrow, and instead started this post, complaining about personal attacks
Personally, I think she now has a bad reputation for jumping to conclusions, and spinning articles inappropriately, and defending the wrong argument. She only continues to dig herself deeper into this reputation and I will glady help her dig by pointing out the error of her ways. I’m glad woodrow is helping.
Every once in a while she makes a good point, but those are now lost because, in what appears to be a personal crusade to show everyone she is the most brilliant person on the forum, she regularly discloses that she does not present clear, organized arguments.
I’m sure she is very nice and I try to stick to the topic, but like it or not, her reputation is going to start becoming more and more a part of the arguments against powayseller because of her personality.
I must say – I take issue with her analysis and conclusions on a regular basis. She can complain about personal comments after she appropriately defends the analytical ones.
