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CyricZ posted...

You'll never improve at this until you get some perspective on how other people view you.

I know your type like to refer to "the marketplace of ideas", but even that metaphor implies its existence as a "marketplace", with different "vendors" and you have vendors that are trusted, and vendors that are less trusted.

Ultimately, you'll still have to effectively sell your "product", and if someone with your mod history were to present what is essentially "a black box" and expect people to trust you, that's when you truly failed at understanding your business and your customers.

Firstly, I don't know what "mod history" has to do with trust. It seems like it has to do with understanding and inferring the rules and expectations of an environment and playing by the rules to the best of your ability.

I don't think you know what "my type" is. As I fundamentally don't see any of this the way you are representing.

IMO Ideas aren't sales, ideas are about discussion and people both learning from each other. It's not winning and losing, it's people enriching each other with different perspectives.

I don't see people I disagree with as enemies or customers, they are people who I might have some insight to offer to, and also people who might have insight to offer me. Nobody is a perfect oracle of truth, you learn/grow by challenging yourself, which is why I am interested in diverse perspectives including those that are novel to me, and infer that others in the world might be similarly interested too.