At first you have tried argumenting with completely unrelated facts, then tried ad-hominem, then you have tried and failed at coming up with a speculative interpretation of your own original post in a failed attempt to pretend those were your motives. Finally, in a last-ditch attempt, you have strongly detracted from your top post.

> The OP/thread is part of an ongoing conversation about the Python community at large and Django's stronghold on the community mindshare

No, it's not. The highest rated top posts for this link talk about complex monolithic code vs flexible code made out of bits which is however lacking in features. This includes the post you're trying to defend using this detraction strategy. The question of Django having or not having mindshare in the python community is secondary to this, and isn't even a topic of the largest minority of comments I've seen on this link.

To support your claim that it's all about community you come up with a short post that is several levels deep, and purport that the original talk bemoans the fact that Django is domineering the community. The talk barely mentions that Django is just a popular choice, it is your completely disconnected analysis that he was complaining about Django's harvesting of the "python mindshare". In fact it mentions Django because according to the talker it's just the top competitor to what he's selling. This is standard course of action when you're presenting a new contender in a space and has nothing to do with "the state of the python community".

In the same way as you try to paint over the past repeatedly changing what you've meant with the original post, you do the same with the side discussion of karma. If it were really as unimportant as you say, why were you defending it in a post just above? You lack consistency.

Yes, I have looked at my karma average. The same page that displays it will also show you that I barely, if ever, post here, and if you try harder you will find out that I've registered about a year ago to post on my own content after it submitted here. This should in fact display to you that this website is not as important to me as you think it is. It's not that I'm new here - it's just that I'm not, you know, "a part of it". However, your comment was just so disconnected from the discussion, I felt compelled to point it out, and I'm glad I did so, because the resulting trainwreck should give you, and other people here, some fodder for thought - not everyone buys your junk logic. You can see it as a pedestrian bystander jumping in to rescue people from a car crash. Not a member of emergency services per se, but the situation warrants action strongly enough that some bystander felt the need to do something.

Threatening people with your amount of experience, jumping around in the supposed meaning of your point, ad hominem (oh, now my comment means this.. no, it means that and you don't get it because i'm so much better than you.. oh, no, it means something else; oh btw, I've been stalking you, watch out!) don't really form a way to have creative and intellectual discourse with anyone. Glad to stomp that out for you, you may thank me later once you've become accustomed to actually admitting when you had made an error, rather than feeling the need to spin it, pretending it's something else.

In my mind, when I made the original comment to your top post, the fallout looked like this:

(original premise): you say that it's very bad that you have to use an rdb for admin

(baiting answer): yeah, so let's just use (nosql database chosen as an especially ridiculous example)

(your answer): you would need to use a nosql database for admin to do (fringe application)

(my answer): but (fringe application) is not what Django was made for. Wrong tool.

(your answer): ok, here's a better illustration. We truly do need Django to be able to do (some thing which is tied to an rdb), but it's much better done if it were in its stead using (some nosql technology).

This workflow has happened (except for the last part), but it came with a lot of bickering and manipulative speculation, which makes me think that you hadn't even noticed it, much like someone who after getting a speeding ticket attributes it to police depravity and oppression of the common man. Therefore, I decided to point it out. Is it really so difficult to admit when you've shot off on a tangent? I liked the link in your top post, quite a lot in fact, but the comment that followed it was of no or negative value because you have chosen to illustrate with non-examples: concepts that do not support your claim. In addition you did this because you really really like nosql databases and probably feel the need to bash on everything that uses SQL from the angle of it using SQL, and sometimes can't control this need. In this way your nature has really messed up the execution of your intentions. I'd have totally upvoted you had you just made a link and no comment, and probably defended the link adamantly from anyone criticizing it. I'd have loved it even more had you accepted that maybe what you thought wasn't entirely correct. But neither of those two things happened. Instead, you bicker and manipulate, finally resorting to trolling through stalking, hoping that you'll find out my name (it's not Rumpelstiltskin) and somehow shock me or make it more personal. And even worse, you fail at stalking, but while doing that show yourself as a big jerk. And I'm not saying I wasn't being negative, but I'm trying to keep form, whereas you display somewhat of a sleazy, vaguely adversarial, win at all costs quality in your discourse, which shows lacks of consistency. Consistency is the most important thing when conveying information, and without it you end up being viewed as a charlatan. Think about it.