I find these personal attacks in the form "you don't know what you're talking about" all over the Internet, and highly annoying.
I'm not sure if that's a flaw with me, or with everyone else.
It seems entirely reasonable to engage with things one doesnt know about, and writing being one valid way of doing so.
Mentally tag everything ever written as if the author had said "IMO" at the end. Even people who do know what they are talking about can be wrong or interpreted wrongly. This is almost a variant on the theme of proof by appeal to authority.
I'm not sure if that's a flaw with me, or with everyone else.
It seems entirely reasonable to engage with things one doesnt know about, and writing being one valid way of doing so.
Mentally tag everything ever written as if the author had said "IMO" at the end. Even people who do know what they are talking about can be wrong or interpreted wrongly. This is almost a variant on the theme of proof by appeal to authority.