Replies to post #15373 on RANT & CHAT - No Politics (RANT-NP)

[AKvetch]

Post: #15336 #msg-1070644

Oh, I see. You are addressing that one post. When you say I 'keep disrupting' the thread I thought you had a number of my posts in mind.

Well, truthfully, I did not count the number of "paragraphs" in that article. I do recollect they
were one or two sentence paragraphs, and that goes to the point of my answer to you in
#msg-1070701 where I said:

I didn't realize I was not following the board's guidelines. In fact, I went to the trouble to highlight (bold face) the couple of sentences that I found most troubling. To post those sentences without the rest of the article would make no sense to the reader because all context would be lost.

What I did, in the spirit of the iBox, was write an opening sentence, post the link at the top of the page so up front the source was clear, then I included the title of the newspaper, and then their headline.

Would it not be common sense that the reader would, in the first 10 lines or so know whether they wanted to read the article or not for their own information, or to make a comment as I solicited?

Now, given what I said in that answer to your question, would you be so kind as to tell me how to summarize that article so it makes sense to a reader, or alternatively, please tell me what the paragraph limit is for posts to be considered lengthy. Obviously you and I have different attention spans in this regard, so putting the number of paragraphs in the iBox will save others from having to guess at what you have intended.

As to your saying

Why quit hassling the board & me and be the person you are projecting yourself to be.

You are letting your distaste of me run amok.

I really don't know what you are talking about. Your emotional statements make absolutely no sense, but if you would rephrase it I will, again, attempt to provide you with a civil response.

IMO I have merely posted an article and answered your questions regarding that posting. Perhaps you would recognize that you are confronting me rather than visa-versa, however I don't see any point in us discussing that and disrupting the Rants board with a flame war. That just makes work for Matt, and could better be done on a more appropriate thread if you wish to contine your attack.

AK