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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8692439" data-attributes="member: 7026617">I didn't find your question particularly relevant, so I saw no reason to give it more than that.  You're not really confronting my position, because I'm not contextually averse to the things you've been talking about; others are.  So how I feel about it is only borderline relevant at best.Frankly, it would require going sufficiently into the weeds that its not worth it to me.  As I said, I'm not intrinsically hostile to things like flashbacks and the like, so when I am isn't particularly significant to the discussion of people who more generically are.  Its look-and-feel and I won't claim to be able to make a general policy about it.Just because not everyone has the wherewithal to argue with you about it does not mean they're agreeing with you.  I'll freely admit I'm quite a bit more willing to be confrontational at need than a lot of people.  As such, when I think someone is essentially missing the point of someone else's position, I don't hesitate to say so even if its a position I don't agree with in whole or part.Its more "If you actually think this is particular productive, I think you're going about it absolutely the wrong way."  That can be read as telling you to stop (as I think its counterproductive), but I don't have any control over what  you chose to say.  But like the saying goes, I have the same right to criticize it as you do to say it in the first place.Replace it with "unproductive" if you like.Then I have to say its remarkably unclear what you are trying to do here.Since I won't speak for others directly here, I'll say in the cases where I'd have an issue with it I'd find it outright jarring.  That'd likely be because I was, as much as possible, avoiding playing from Author stance at the time (which again, I'm not intrinsically hostile to).  Past that I don't think there's any other element present that I can suggest.</blockquote>

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