OK, this is starting to get a little heated.
Jorge, I don't believe oshfdk is arguing you are acting in bad faith by lying or cheating. I assumed he was suggesting that pre-filtering is the kind of thing you can easily miss through confirmation bias, like solvers who subconsciously look through a dictionary for words associated with plants when doing their translations and are genuinely surprised and delighted to find one.
The violence of the reaction you mention is not unique to this thread. There has been intense criticism in the Irish thread, the Turkish thread, and in the many Latin threads. When you express certainty about something, as opposed to purely suggesting an idea, you're going to face stronger criticism. But if you're uncomfortable with some posts or the tone, please let Koen and me know.
As a general reminder to everyone: please keep things civil, assume good faith in the person you are disagreeing with, and try to steer clear from anything that could be seen as an accusation of bad faith or bad motivations.
Jorge, I don't believe oshfdk is arguing you are acting in bad faith by lying or cheating. I assumed he was suggesting that pre-filtering is the kind of thing you can easily miss through confirmation bias, like solvers who subconsciously look through a dictionary for words associated with plants when doing their translations and are genuinely surprised and delighted to find one.
The violence of the reaction you mention is not unique to this thread. There has been intense criticism in the Irish thread, the Turkish thread, and in the many Latin threads. When you express certainty about something, as opposed to purely suggesting an idea, you're going to face stronger criticism. But if you're uncomfortable with some posts or the tone, please let Koen and me know.
As a general reminder to everyone: please keep things civil, assume good faith in the person you are disagreeing with, and try to steer clear from anything that could be seen as an accusation of bad faith or bad motivations.
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