That’s just not true. Ad hominem has nothing to do with the argument. If someone attacked some aspect of your character and dismissed your arguments on those grounds, that would be ad hominem. But in this case all they did was express confusion because your original comment was pretty incomprehensible.
i’m starting to think this is a poorly programmed bot based on how this poster is not engaging with the request for clarification and is trying to claim that stating that the rest of us don’t understand what they are trying to say is an attack on their character
That’s just not true. Ad hominem has nothing to do with the argument. If someone attacked some aspect of your character and dismissed your arguments on those grounds, that would be ad hominem. But in this case all they did was express confusion because your original comment was pretty incomprehensible.
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i’m starting to think this is a poorly programmed bot based on how this poster is not engaging with the request for clarification and is trying to claim that stating that the rest of us don’t understand what they are trying to say is an attack on their character
But they do have real comments elsewhere