(March 25, 2013 at 10:03 pm)jstrodel Wrote: He ignored the original point completely. Look at Joel's signature. Whatever.
Just to spell it out, in that quote, your justification for the argument not being fallacious was argument ad populum. The juxtaposition makes it cute.
It might cause less confusion if people always said 'fallacy of appeal to inappropriate authority' instead of shortening it for convenience. Many of us take the 'inappropriate' as given, but not everyone is aware of it.