re: #1086 Sigma_x

I’ve said some nasty shit to people here a few times, and sometimes it got personal. But even I think your comments to Walter were over the top. You ridiculed his unfortunate life situation, which you wouldn’t have even known about except that he volunteered the information.

And, yeah, there’s a pecking order here. So what? There aren’t a million people here holding you down. More like a few hundred regular commenters, many of whom have known each other for nearly 10 years. And they communicate with one another daily. So if you’ve only been here a month and you start with really mean-spirited personal attacks, people will close ranks and you’ll be ostracized. Is that fair? Maybe not in some larger cosmic sense, but in the context of a blog’s unique logic, it’s perfectly reasonable.

And why are you lording your $11 million bank account over others? That’s just petty and irrelevant.