Originally posted by lawest9
I'll offer this, and it is not necessarily aimed at Carver but people in general, I've noticed that people will respond more favorably towsrd anyone who lay their views down in a more himble approach as oppose to being arrogant and argumentative, it's in most of to respond negatively and to be oppositional when we are responding to someone of the attitude.
I have no doubt that such a thing is a factor, but because of my behind the scenes experiments I'd say that it isn't the primary factor. Honestly I think the biggest reason carver himself catches so much flak is that dumping on him is basically seen as "fashionable". People know they can get away with it because he's not the type to actually try to get anyone else in trouble, he's not the most eloquent guy in the world so he's not great at dealing with multiple points from multiple sources simultaneously, and it makes them one of the "cool kids" so why not...