Beck’s Razor
Anyone worth talking to knows Hanlon’s Razor:
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
Now I find Beck’s Razor:
n. The practice, on an internet discussion thread, of making substantive comments in a confrontational and insulting manner as a means of sorting the other participants into those who can understand the substance and those who only see the tone and the form.
Tags: Beck's Razor, Billy Beck
October 17th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
The Fourth Checkraise linked to this post here; Thanks, Ilkka.
Wordpress reported the link in the Dashboard, but did not add a trackback. I don’t understand why not.