stillrobertpaulsen » Tue Oct 29, 2019 6:16 pm wrote: I loved this!!!
PufPuf93, thank you for singlepostedly making me remember why I pinned this thread to the top of GD in the first place. I hope everyone reads this to the end and takes away something in which they can improve their
own rhetoric. After all, you can only really control your own behavior and whatever information you present here, the rhetoric you use to present that information is your responsibility. So use it with as much thoughtfulness and consideration as you can. Peace out.
MacCruiskeen » Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:52 am wrote:MacCruiskeen » Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:59 am wrote:Good question. The answer is no, of course. And is flooding copy pasta "discussion", srp? If you truly think so, please explain how it constitutes discussion and in what way it is "collaborative".
As expected, no response from SRP to either my or RocketMan's perfectly reasonable and perfectly polite questions.
If someone taking part in a discussion knows the answer to a pertinent question, then the decent thing for him to do is, obviously, to answer the question. That would make for meaningful discussion. That's what an honest participant on this Discussion Board would do, as opposed to just ignoring those questions and slinking off in the huff.
So much for SRP's pretended interest in rhetoric, discussion, collaboration, or the welfare of RI. Flooding copypasta is just fine by him, apparently, though of course this depends entirely on who's doing the flooding. As for the flooded, they can just suck it up.
The dishonesty and sneakiness here are off the chart.
At first, MacCruiskeen, I thought this was a joke. It's almost like you read my post and then decided to do the
exact opposite of what I hoped everyone would do after reading PufPuf93's link. You did read the link, didn't you? But instead of taking the opportunity to employ some self-reflection, maybe a little
patience, you jump into attack mode!
Here's a tip: click on my profile, then click Search user's posts. Look at the timestamp on my last post prior to this one. (Hell, just look at the date!) Then look at the timestamp on your post. While you were asking your first pair of questions, I was probably eating dinner with my family before retiring to a night of internet-free fun. Yesterday, I was occupied with other activities, preparing for a contract negotiation with an employer who has been negligent on safety concerns being one of them, and I didn't have time to see your post, let alone respond to it.
I'll leave RocketMan out of this, since he didn't address me with his question, but I will address you, Mac: "perfectly reasonable"???"perfectly polite"??? First of all, "perfect" is vacuous hyperbole. Are your phone calls "perfect" too? But I don't find it "reasonable" or "polite" to be asked questions I've already answered, and in rather elaborate and painfuckingstaking detail, on the subject of copypasta and how to best facilitate collaborative discussion. Are you seriously feigning ignorance?! Do you need a
link? Or are you just upset that I haven't changed my views to include the ludicrous "One OP per month" request that a majority of members already rejected and the mods have no interest in enacting?
MacCruiskeen » Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:52 am wrote:If someone taking part in a discussion knows the answer to a pertinent question, then the decent thing for him to do is, obviously, to answer the question. That would make for meaningful discussion. That's what an honest participant on this Discussion Board would do, as opposed to just ignoring those questions and slinking off in the huff.
What a snotty assumption. I've got a busy life outside of RI, which is why I no longer moderate. Again, you want to feign ignorance? Tell me how does the assumption that I am "slinking off in the huff" improve the rhetoric on this board? It's a rather antagonistic pose.
MacCruiskeen » Thu Oct 31, 2019 4:52 am wrote:So much for SRP's pretended interest in rhetoric, discussion, collaboration, or the welfare of RI. Flooding copypasta is just fine by him, apparently, though of course this depends entirely on who's doing the flooding. As for the flooded, they can just suck it up.
Way to put words in my mouth, Mac! That's a really winning way to improve the rhetoric around these parts! Some might even call it
bullying! That's my one question to you that I really hope you answer: could you make a concerted effort to be more considerate of other people by being
less belligerent in your interactions with others on RI? You know, just to show you're making an effort to do
your part to make RI a better place and not just insinuating that the problems on RI are
everyone else's fault.
Projection. Tell me again how I have never stated my position on copypasta, or that you were completely unaware of it. Pretend I never tried addressed it during my time as a mod. Pretend you were not the biggest pain in my ass, both in public and in PMs, bringing this subject to my attention. Spell it all out in a drama-filled reply to this post.
Just don't expect a reply until next week. Cuz, you know,
life happens.
"Huey Long once said, “Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.” I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."
-Jim Garrison 1967