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What's the difference between a personal opinion and a personal opinion stated as fact?

It seems like a cheap critic technique to take discredit someone's opinion by claiming they "state it as a fact" when nobody ever writes "IMO" before or after everything we say.

His posts are full of [..] personal opinions stated as fact

I claim this is your opinion stated as a fact, therefore meaningless and I can dismiss it.

Which of his statements do you find to be factually inaccurate?

The ones that are his opinions - which is the majority of it.

Do you seriously claim that he is not allowed to post his own opinions on his personal blog?

ah, this is just icing on the cake:

https://twitter.com/#!/ckindel/status/156623373168943105

what a clown.