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Lets say the dude invented something important? are you to have a better follow up question?

If your point is that they commenter is delusional, and at once over-estimating himself and under-estimating others, you should come up with a better way communicating it.

A proper punk-nosed-kid would certainly be more clever.




He asked some pretty straightforward questions, like what the poster's concrete contributions to the project were.


It adds nothing to the discussion. If the guy did something major (case#1), the discussion is over. It just makes the person asking the question look like an ass.

The other issue is that anyone who would have a reply of that caliber most likely wouldn't reply...why bother...? Thats the (#2) second case. Again, the discussion is over.

The third best case is that the guy is bluffing, and doesn't bother to answer the question. This is case (#3) but isn't really any different in motivating the discussion than case #2. Game theory says the bluff plays to look like the win, right? So just don't answer (and mimic #2).

So there are no rational replies to this question.

As an interrogation-style question its a failure.




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