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| Free radical scavenger  |
You are not the only one who has noticed this problem: https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...0601935/m/4010063214  I'll go along with blaming smartphones, especially since they don't work where I am currently located. | |||
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Rey HRH, I read every single page of the Trump thread. Did you already forget that I lurked here for about 15 years before I made an account? Sifting though my posts on the Trump thread and responding to try and discredit or devalue the OP just tells me that you have way too much time on your hands. If you want to re-read that thread and point out anything I posted that had restarted a tired debate, knock yourself out. As for your last point, I understand your point and I'll elaborate: If we all like/dislike <insert whatever> there's nothing wrong with a bunch of posts in agreement or disagreement. It's when a point is being debated and instead of new perspectives to advance/retard said point, people post things that have been said many times over about the point with nothing new or constructive to add. __________________________________________________________________ Beware the man who has one gun because he probably knows how to use it. | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
It's part smartphones, no doubt; part laziness, and part ignorance. Back In The Day, when bandwidth and storage were at a premium, we learned to economize. Thus people learned to trim quotes while, it was hoped, retaining necessary context, and to reply reply in-line. I see the full-quoting problem all over the 'net. Some web boards have taken to either making quoting optional, limiting quoting to the post to which you're replying (no nested quotes) or disallowing quoting entirely. Then there are those who, apparently blithely oblivious to their surroundings and, despite the fact there nearly nobody else does it, feels the need to follow-up "Jeopardy style." "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
That thread wasn't started 15 years ago. And if you read every single post just on that one thread, then it appears you're the one with time on your hands.
I didn't sift through your posts. I merely 1) clicked on your profile, 2) clicked on your recent posts, and 3) noted the posts you made on that particular thread that you referenced. Why are you now complaining about my post in your thread that isn't merely a repeat of any previous post. Has anyone else did what I did? I would think that you would commend me as my post is aligned with the very point you were making. I was simply interested in checking the consistency of your practice with the point you are making. So I commend you for actually reading every post on that thread but, again, with 623 pages prior to your first post, I doubt you expressed a unique thought. No, I don't have the time to re-read the whole thread, I'm just siding with the odds. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
Would it be bad form to quote my own post from this thread, now? Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Mensch |
No you didn't...  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Rey HRH, you came into my thread and took a huge dump with your assumptions and playing the odds, strictly directed at me to make me sound like a hypocrite. For the record, you're the only one in my short posting period who's ever gone out of their way as far as you have to try and stick one to me. You've been here since 2011 and have over 12k posts. Based upon your argumentative and confrontational behavior in this thread, if you want to play the odds it's quite clear you're more likely to be a violator than most. By the way, it may shock you that the 1300+ pages of the Trump thread didn't appear overnight and it was available for people to read as the election progressed. Frankly, I don't see any reason why you should continue to participate in this thread. I never "kept score" of members who did this because I think everyone, including me, are capable of doing the things I referenced in the OP. But I'm talking about habitual offenders, who are intentionally obtuse. I'm talking about people like you. Again, it would be best if you stay out of my thread because you bring negativity and nothing constructive and you can up your post count elsewhere. Good day. __________________________________________________________________ Beware the man who has one gun because he probably knows how to use it. | |||
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blame canada |
You made a good lurker. Why the sudden urge to FINALLY (according to you) make an account and participate beyond the peeping -tom level? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The trouble with our Liberal friends...is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan, 1964 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Arguing with some people is like playing chess with a pigeon. It doesn't matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board, strut around knocking over all the pieces and act like it won.. and in some cases it will insult you at the same time." DevlDogs55, 2014  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ www.rikrlandvs.com | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
I guess I don't feel the same way. I have been here for years. Seem's to be the same forum for the most part as it has always been. i know we have tons of new members and some usually have a bit of a learning curve. There are some members who always chime in more or less to the same type of threads with the same old stuff. I just avoid those. I have gotten pretty good over my time here avoiding the threads that usually end up in some kind of a pissing match or get locked. So in general I love this forum. I love the membership and it is a great place with tons of great people who help, support and provide knowledge to its membership. That is all, orc "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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Equal Opportunity Mocker |
>>This<< ________________________________________________ "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers | |||
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Honky Lips |
I think you've said it quite effectively Dead_Eye. now what are we going to do about it? | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Thanks, Dead_Eye. Perhaps being aware will help rein in the worst excesses. (Edited as per SIGnified. Yeah, I knew better, too, which almost makes it worse.)The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/1850011224/p/1 See the seventh post down on page 1. "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Dies Irae |
Well, since the subject of behavior was brought up, there is two things that are notable. Picture quoting..it gets old after the first six or so times. But damn, what's up with quoting six pictures or more, like one sometimes sees? I remember when people used to note "not for 56K" in thread titles. Sometimes the threads open like in those days. Something else is big avatars. I've seen where people were shown their picture as it first appears and ignored it. I've seen where members have offered to shrink and/or host avatars and it goes on. This has nothing to do with forum moderation but rather being easy on our host's dime and remembering not everybody has a fast connection. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
I do 90+% of my forum browsing from a phone, at a glance, in between various other things, sometimes with one, and other times with twenty-one, things going on all the while. Sometimes I'll have a dozen different threads/browser tabs open at once, for days, and sometimes a response I started in a tab on Monday doesn't get finished until Friday, and sometimes I might not refresh or read x-new pages of posts that happened in between. I try to, and usually do, but not always, as, sometimes, "ain't nobody got time fo' that"... and sometimes, even when I do all of those things, I make a mistake in reading the thread title or misread someone else's post, almost none of which happens maliciously or the like. Such is life and online media in the 21st century. I'm surprised it goes as well as it does...  | |||
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| I'd rather have luck than skill any day  |
DE, chill. This is an internet forum. One of the better ones I might add. I don't take exception to your OP. But, my recommendation is, if you take issue with somebody on a particular issue, keep it in that thread. BTW, did you see that one episode of Mythbusters... CDFOS | |||
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Ammoholic |
I do pretty much the same. Checking in while on hold, standing in line, or whenever I have five throughout the day. I've started typing a post to see some one just made the same point minutes to hours before I completed writing one. If it's a fast moving one, I'll usually close the open post window, read the stuff that has came in and reply to the whole thing. For 95% of the threads I read entire thread, including Trump ones. I missed a bit from page 10-100 of Assclown thread and some from election night, other than that, I read every page of both. I hate when three people make same joke/point, even more so when one the current page or one later. RTFT! ETA I am only on here and two industry specific forums that I participate in once every year or two. I read threads in other ones occasionally. From my limited knowledge of these things, there is none better.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Skins2881, Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Res ipsa loquitur |
IMHO, a lot of forum members are less civil to each other than they were even five years ago. Can I point to any specific thread or event? No. It's just my general sense. __________________________ | |||
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| Conservative Behind Enemy Lines  |
He said in his OP he created an account so that he could obtain a seller's email address after seeing something in the classified he wanted. Did you ask this question just to make his point? I found what you said riveting. | |||
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