What I was pointing out in this thread has nothing to do with taking a side in the mining debate.
There is a big difference between a substantive discussion and a tribal conflict, and what’s happening here is very clearly the second.
When I compared someone who has been around since 2005 with someone who has only been playing for a few months, that was not a personal attack, it was a perfectly reasonable way to talk about experience and likelihood of understanding the system. It’s the same as comparing a driver with 20+ years behind the wheel to someone who got their license six months ago. It doesn’t guarantee who is right, but in the absence of detailed data, it’s a logical factor to consider.
What I have not done at any point is claim that his specific advice about minig is definitely correct or incorrect. I haven’t followed his post history, I don’t need to, and I’m not interested in digging through someone’s entire forum past just to validate whether I’m “allowed” to question the way others are responding. My point is simple: if you claim someone “knows nothing” or is “wrong”, the burden is on you to show why.
What I see instead are replies like:
- “don’t listen to this guy, he knows nothing”
- “I’ve explained it many times before, it’s pointless”
- “go check his previous posts”
- “the forum would be better off without his falsehoods and shit theories”
None of this is an argument.
It’s all just an attempt to discredit the person instead of engaging with what was actually written. That is exactly what I called out as ad hominem and trolling.
To make it crystal clear:
A substantive discussion means:
- addressing the actual claim,
- presenting data, reasoning, or examples,
- explaining why you think something is wrong,
- responding to arguments with counter‑arguments,
-staying focused on the topic, not the person.
A tribal conflict means:
- attacking the person instead of their statements,
- appealing to reputation, history, or group alignment instead of logic,
- repeating “he’s wrong” without showing how or why,
- forming a little group that just dogpiles with likes/dislikes,
- treating criticism of your reasoning as a personal attack.
What I see here is entirely the second category. Someone points out that a reply is pure ad hominem and lacks logic, and the reaction is… more ad hominem and even less logic. That doesn’t prove that he’s wrong or roght about mining; it only proves that some people here don’t know how to argue without resorting to personal attacks.
That’s the whole point of my comment. Not defending a person. Not defending a specific mining strategy. Just pointing out that if you can’t separate “I don’t like this guy” from “is his reasoning correct?”, then you’re not having a discussion, you’re just doing tribal warfare and calling it an argument.
I’m still waiting for an actual, reasoned explanation of why changing location “makes no sense”, because so far nobody has provided one. Many experienced miners recommend doing exactly that, and I’ve seen some of veteran players and streamers adjust their position when hit‑rate drops. If someone believes this approach is wrong, then the logical next step is to explain why, not to attack the person who mentioned it.
The fact that I have to explain this in such detail proves how much an AI moderator is needed here. I’m waiting for more thumbs down, which only proves once again how right I am. this is the last thing you have left when you cannot express yourself substantively and when a personal attack has already been pointed out to you.
