status quo assumed preferable

[Undertoad]

So when Torr wrote

Having written all of this, I think that his original post was a passive-aggressive way of implicating the established group at the Cellar of being insular.

He was clearly correct (as this is now the central core of your argument), and when he wrote

If this was his real question, and he really wanted us to discuss it, he should have come out and said so.

...his advice is now taken. (Cool!)

You appear to now be addressing that in the way he thought was more appropriate. So, to sum up in third person:

- The original Flint was an ass, and did not read the Cellar before participating, merely walked in and started posting in his style, and was upset to find out it made most Dwellars assume he was an ass.
- After a week of learning what was appropriate posting style for the community, he changed his posting style to better reflect it.
- After being told in his thread that his argument was obtuse he changed it to be in line with what the thread demanded.
- But after all this fitting-in, he demands that fitting-in is unproductive not only to the Cellar but to society in general.

Derrrrrrrrrr. Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.