(02-02-2021 11:34 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  At Ease did contribute as well, but you're right that it wasn't nearly as much as OO.

I didn't realize that the issue was the imbalance, I thought it was the lack of any additional thoughts on the matter. I see that the fly-by posting is A-OK so long as you contribute in other ways.

I truly thought people were annoyed by the act of posting a link to an article without any other information.

This thread is 42 pages long... there are PLENTY of 'fly-by' posts by numerous people, including I suspect both of us. That is not the issue here and never has been the issue, and still isn't here despite what you think.

Starting a thread with a fly-by CAN BE an issue. If you MOSTLY contribute good commentary and you OCCASIONALLY deliver a fly-by thread, you will be 'spoken to', which MANY more people than you could possibly know have had this happen to them. If you step back, no problem. If the person continues or even worse, argues about it, the leash gets a lot shorter. That's most often what causes people to get banned.... that or doxxing.

Quote:edit: just realized you took some liberties with your response and really threw a hand grenade. Someone pee in your Cheerios?'

How did I take 'liberties'? By suggesting that you knew something that you even admit that you knew in your response? Hand Grenade? You admit its true??

Jesus Lad... You screwed up by grossly over-stating the facts (in an effort to belittle someone else, whether or not they deserved it) and you respond to being called on it by grossly over-stating the facts (when you admit that the complaint is valid?)??

Quote:I did not act like this was all he does - it was clear that I was talking about a type of post he makes, which are quite frequent. Ham, why don't you just put me on ignore if you feel the need to step in like this and escalate the situation?

The "all you do" was clearly in reference to these specific types of posts, not indicating that OO does nothing but make posts like that. To make the jump you did ignores all of the other posts in that thread and the fact that I am connected to reality and have many back and forths with OO. But the kind of posts I was criticizing are worth criticizing, IMO.

Let me get this straight....

So YOU say to him 'all you do'... and when I say 'that's not all he does' and you even ADMIT now that this isn't 'all he does' then how exactly am I the one in the wrong here? What you said (that this is 'all you do') is absolutely not accurate.... and it isn't what At Ease did, by your own admission...

so while literally admitting that your comparison and words were inaccurate, even in a relative basis (Often when people say 'all' they really mean 'it feels like' or 'very very often')... you still find some way to turn it around on someone else?? As if all of those other posts you may have made to him (which you're right, I didn't read) change the definition of words like 'all you do' or make an equivalency comparison to someone who you almost immediately admit does it more often somehow now valid??

So what you said was wrong and what i said was right... but somehow, its MY fault for pointing it out because I didn't read all the other posts that STILL don't make me wrong and you right?? All it means is that you think I should have known that you didn't mean exactly what you said... and that by extension, your comparison to AE wasn't what you really meant either... My bad?? lol??

As to putting you on ignore.. I'm a mod... I can't do that... Believe me, I'd love to sometimes. The problem with ignore and a mod (in either direction) is that I can still read a reported post of yours and would NEVER get any context to see if there was a reason to simply say something or to actually moderate the point.... and you would never know why you were being moderated. I like to think that calmer heads eventually win out on this forum....

As a moderator, it was your comparison of OO to a banned poster (because had you been arguing that AE shouldn't have been banned... which you absolutely did not... but I had to read to know... that would be an AUP violation) that even got me to read your post... otherwise I probably wouldn't have even noticed.