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Kamil Maciorowski
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Am I at fault?

I think you are at fault (to be clear: I really cannot tell if you're the only one at fault). Keep reading to know my reasons.

A fault which justified a suspension with no warning, and to not suspend someone who has harassed other users?

This I cannot tell without seeing all the deleted comments. My reasoning is based on the one you revealed:

I have flagged your comment and I'll keep posting my warning. The question is about a Mac, but that does not give you any reason to say "so this is the same for almost any OS".

Note "for any OS" is not equivalent to "for almost any OS". Your statement about Linux (I assume it's a true statement) makes the former false but the latter can still be true. I can see the answer was edited (revision 4) and "for any OS" turned into "for almost any OS". I don't know if it was because of your comment. Anyway, considering what you wrote about Linux, adding "almost" was the right thing to do.

Still you kept attacking the phrase "for almost any OS". Even in your answer here you said:

But I'm tired of repeating that the answer made a claim about "almost all OSes", and the whole purpose of my comment on the answer was to show how the claim fails.

The claim doesn't fail. Your statement about Linux falsifies "for any OS", but it doesn't falsify "for almost any OS" or "almost all OSes". The key word is "almost".

IMO a comment about Linux could be useful here (moderately, but still), if only targeted more on sharing knowledge than trying to falsify somebody else's statement (which, after being edited, is true).

It could have been like this:

(You) Forcing a power off is not the best option for a Linux system whose keyboard has a SysRq key. For example […]. Therefore IMO "for any OS" is not entirely true.

(The author) Noted. I changed "for any OS" to "for almost any OS". Anyway macOS is not Linux and the SysRq key doesn't exist in a Mac.

(You) True, macOS is not Linux. I will let my comment stay though. Linux users who happen to wander here may benefit from it.

In a perfect world you would be happy because you learnt something about Mac, the author would be happy because they learnt something about Linux.

If I were you I might argue about "for any OS", but I certainly wouldn't attack the phrase "for almost any OS". If my comment about Linux was deleted, I would probably let it go. Well, maybe I wouldn't, but this would be a mistake. After "almost" was added to the answer, letting go was the right thing to do.

Am I at fault?

I think you are at fault (to be clear: I really cannot tell if you're the only one at fault). Keep reading to know my reasons.

A fault which justified a suspension with no warning, and to not suspend someone who has harassed other users?

This I cannot tell without seeing all the deleted comments. My reasoning is based on the one you revealed:

I have flagged your comment and I'll keep posting my warning. The question is about a Mac, but that does not give you any reason to say "so this is the same for almost any OS".

Note "for any OS" is not equivalent to "for almost any OS". Your statement about Linux (I assume it's a true statement) makes the former false but the latter can still be true. I can see the answer was edited (revision 4) and "for any OS" turned into "for almost any OS". I don't know if it was because of your comment. Anyway, considering what you wrote about Linux adding "almost" was the right thing to do.

Still you kept attacking the phrase "for almost any OS". Even in your answer here you said:

But I'm tired of repeating that the answer made a claim about "almost all OSes", and the whole purpose of my comment on the answer was to show how the claim fails.

The claim doesn't fail. Your statement about Linux falsifies "for any OS", but it doesn't falsify "for almost any OS" or "almost all OSes". The key word is "almost".

IMO a comment about Linux could be useful here (moderately, but still), if only targeted more on sharing knowledge than trying to falsify somebody else's statement (which, after being edited, is true).

It could have been like this:

(You) Forcing a power off is not the best option for a Linux system whose keyboard has a SysRq key. For example […]. Therefore IMO "for any OS" is not entirely true.

(The author) Noted. I changed "for any OS" to "for almost any OS". Anyway macOS is not Linux and the SysRq key doesn't exist in a Mac.

(You) True, macOS is not Linux. I will let my comment stay though. Linux users who happen to wander here may benefit from it.

In a perfect world you would be happy because you learnt something about Mac, the author would be happy because they learnt something about Linux.

If I were you I might argue about "for any OS", but I certainly wouldn't attack the phrase "for almost any OS". If my comment about Linux was deleted, I would probably let it go. Well, maybe I wouldn't, but this would be a mistake. After "almost" was added to the answer, letting go was the right thing to do.

Am I at fault?

I think you are at fault (to be clear: I really cannot tell if you're the only one at fault). Keep reading to know my reasons.

A fault which justified a suspension with no warning, and to not suspend someone who has harassed other users?

This I cannot tell without seeing all the deleted comments. My reasoning is based on the one you revealed:

I have flagged your comment and I'll keep posting my warning. The question is about a Mac, but that does not give you any reason to say "so this is the same for almost any OS".

Note "for any OS" is not equivalent to "for almost any OS". Your statement about Linux (I assume it's a true statement) makes the former false but the latter can still be true. I can see the answer was edited (revision 4) and "for any OS" turned into "for almost any OS". I don't know if it was because of your comment. Anyway, considering what you wrote about Linux, adding "almost" was the right thing to do.

Still you kept attacking the phrase "for almost any OS". Even in your answer here you said:

But I'm tired of repeating that the answer made a claim about "almost all OSes", and the whole purpose of my comment on the answer was to show how the claim fails.

The claim doesn't fail. Your statement about Linux falsifies "for any OS", but it doesn't falsify "for almost any OS" or "almost all OSes". The key word is "almost".

IMO a comment about Linux could be useful here (moderately, but still), if only targeted more on sharing knowledge than trying to falsify somebody else's statement (which, after being edited, is true).

It could have been like this:

(You) Forcing a power off is not the best option for a Linux system whose keyboard has a SysRq key. For example […]. Therefore IMO "for any OS" is not entirely true.

(The author) Noted. I changed "for any OS" to "for almost any OS". Anyway macOS is not Linux and the SysRq key doesn't exist in a Mac.

(You) True, macOS is not Linux. I will let my comment stay though. Linux users who happen to wander here may benefit from it.

In a perfect world you would be happy because you learnt something about Mac, the author would be happy because they learnt something about Linux.

If I were you I might argue about "for any OS", but I certainly wouldn't attack the phrase "for almost any OS". If my comment about Linux was deleted, I would probably let it go. Well, maybe I wouldn't, but this would be a mistake. After "almost" was added to the answer, letting go was the right thing to do.

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Kamil Maciorowski
Kamil Maciorowski
  • 78.9k
  • 1
  • 12
  • 18

Am I at fault?

I think you are at fault (to be clear: I really cannot tell if you're the only one at fault). Keep reading to know my reasons.

A fault which justified a suspension with no warning, and to not suspend someone who has harassed other users?

This I cannot tell without seeing all the deleted comments. My reasoning is based on the one you revealed:

I have flagged your comment and I'll keep posting my warning. The question is about a Mac, but that does not give you any reason to say "so this is the same for almost any OS".

Note "for any OS" is not equivalent to "for almost any OS". Your statement about Linux (I assume it's a true statement) makes the former false but the latter can still be true. I can see the answer was edited (revision 4) and "for any OS" turned into "for almost any OS". I don't know if it was because of your comment. Anyway, considering what you wrote about Linux adding "almost" was the right thing to do.

Still you kept attacking the phrase "for almost any OS". Even in your answer here you said:

But I'm tired of repeating that the answer made a claim about "almost all OSes", and the whole purpose of my comment on the answer was to show how the claim fails.

The claim doesn't fail. Your statement about Linux falsifies "for any OS", but it doesn't falsify "for almost any OS" or "almost all OSes". The key word is "almost".

IMO a comment about Linux could be useful here (moderately, but still), if only targeted more on sharing knowledge than trying to falsify somebody else's statement (which, after being edited, is true).

It could have been like this:

(You) Forcing a power off is not the best option for a Linux system whose keyboard has a SysRq key. For example […]. Therefore IMO "for any OS" is not entirely true.

(The author) Noted. I changed "for any OS" to "for almost any OS". Anyway macOS is not Linux and the SysRq key doesn't exist in a Mac.

(You) True, macOS is not Linux. I will let my comment stay though. Linux users who happen to wander here may benefit from it.

In a perfect world you would be happy because you learnt something about Mac, the author would be happy because they learnt something about Linux.

If I were you I might argue about "for any OS", but I certainly wouldn't attack the phrase "for almost any OS". If my comment about Linux was deleted, I would probably let it go. Well, maybe I wouldn't, but this would be a mistake. After "almost" was added to the answer, letting go was the right thing to do.