Comment by fourstar
13 years ago
Glad to see Crockford making jokes there. Unfortunately after leaving a comment on a recent picture update on his Google+ profile (in good humor), he banned me from his circles, unshared everything with me, and removed the comment. I still look up to him though.
I tend to do that to people I don't know. Seems perfectly reasonable.
Humor from strangers does not transfer well. What seemed to be in good humor to you, may have been obnoxious to him.
Aaaaand this is why the "evil" clause is problematic.
Perhaps, but there is a key difference. The above example was said to a particular person about a particular thing (which I infer by the fact it was posted on a picture). The "evil" clause is a joke thrown out into the wild, directed at no one in particular. In other words, the above example is personal, the "evil" clause is not.