Lanefan
Victoria Rules
A non-rhetorical answer: because the one person who asks someone to stop is very often not the only person one is engaging with, within a given thread.It sounds like you want to continue engaging people after they've asked you not to, and are scoping out the boundaries. My question is this: why do you want to engage with people who don't want to engage with you? (It's a rhetorical question).
The first 20 posts in this thread, for example, were made by 8 different posters - and thus with this post my assumption is that I'm posting to all of them, even though I've only quoted one poster's words.
A hypothetical example (and I'll pick on FrogReaver as such an interaction has never in fact occured between us), if @FrogReaver and I get into a discussion that others chime in on as well but which eventually leads to FrogReaver asking me to stop, that could put an early end to a conversation that other people were closely following. And if other people then chime in again, what am I allowed to do?
It's like sitting around having beers with a bunch of people in the pub (remember those days?) - sure someone else at the table can tell me I'm full of bull and that I should shut up, but I'm under no obligation to listen and in theory should be free to continue that conversation with the rest of the table.