# Unproductive complaining and arguing about others pedagogy

Please see the following discussion in the comments of my answer If $a > b$, is $a^2 > b^2$?

I feel this style of slightly rude comments which contain much more subjective argumentation than mathematical are actually confusing to readers (like who posted the question) and that it is counterproductive in general to waste time trying to force people to teach in the same was you like to teach.

My opinion is we should try and keep that type of comment to a minimum, but what does the rest of the community feel? (I am expecting that my opinion is the minority and mostly curious about peoples justification for disagreement).

• My comments were untactful and unclear in terms of what I meant to express, and I apologize to Moron and muad. Now that all of the comments have been removed, I feel like adding clarification, but am inclined to leave the original post alone. muad's answer makes rigorous a claim in the currently accepted answer (the inequality holds if $a$ and $b$ are positive), and therefore it adds something as a complement to that answer. – Jonas Meyer Nov 8 '10 at 18:21
• However, the last sentence, "That is why we need $b$ to be positive," could be interpreted as a statement that positivity of $b$ is necessary for the inequality to hold, rather than just for your particular argument. – Jonas Meyer Nov 8 '10 at 18:22
• @Jonas Meyer - by the way, it was nothing you said which I was bothered by. – anon Nov 8 '10 at 18:22