> > give up the I'm-so-smart routine. Trust me, you're an idiot like the rest of us
> What can I say? I'm a karma whore. I just restate the obvious and bask in the upvoting love.
It's weird that insulting the OP and myself is a method of karma whoring. Anyway, downvoted for being so pessimistic and then calling your ideas "obvious" which is arrogant (and moments after you implied the OP is arrogant by saying he overestimates himself). Also "trust me" is a non-argument that makes you sound slimy.
I think you misunderstood what I've said, or I wasn't clear enough.
In my opinion, I added nothing much of value aside from simply re-assembling the ideas everybody else already had. Arrogance was never my intention. I'm simply saying I don't see much new that I added. It's a reply to a complement -- thanks, but it wasn't that big of a deal. This type of sentence construction happens all the time in normal conversation.
If you're insulted, I apologize. I'm also confused. Where are you in any of the parents of this comment for me to insult you? You've got one comment on the page, and as far as I can tell, it's not even related to any of mine.
And saying I sound slimy is out-of-bounds. I'll end this here. I replied simply because I have no idea what in heck you're talking about and thought maybe I had done a poor job of explaining myself.
"an idiot like the rest of us" insults me. I am one of the rest of us but prefer not to be called an idiot.
Regarding arrogance, saying your ideas are obvious (obviously true) is arrogant. Whether you intend for the statement to be arrogant is irrelevant to whether it is arrogant.
Saying things are "out of bounds" and therefore refusing to consider them is out of bounds in rational conversation.
My guess is: none of this is you communicating poorly or me misunderstanding. Rather, it's that your statements have meanings beyond the ones you had in mind while writing them.
> What can I say? I'm a karma whore. I just restate the obvious and bask in the upvoting love.
It's weird that insulting the OP and myself is a method of karma whoring. Anyway, downvoted for being so pessimistic and then calling your ideas "obvious" which is arrogant (and moments after you implied the OP is arrogant by saying he overestimates himself). Also "trust me" is a non-argument that makes you sound slimy.