The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[dragoner]

Nothing turns one off a game like pedantry

 

[Guest 7034872]

Nothing turns one off a game like pedantry

But if we don't have all our terms exhaustively defined and quantified, how can we know when we're having fun???

 

[dragoner]

But if we don't have all our terms exhaustively defined and quantified, how can we know when we're having fun???

Its like I read stuff, and think, if that was a book, I would not read it.

 

[niklinna]

I’ve been occupied recently researching the best way to put numbers in upper case so I can better shout at people on the internet who do math wrong.

Unfortunately, numerals are by default already in the equivalent of upper case, and they're generally implemented in the typeface rather than character encoding.

Text figures - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Gammadoodler]

When replies get so long you need multi-quote to follow them. They are objectively too long.

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

 

[dragoner]

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

esp when they say they are from "troll country".

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

When replies get so long you need multi-quote to follow them. They are objectively too long.

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. When I read those who elevate their own loquaciousness over perspicuousness, I desire forthwith to become a better stranger to them.

 

[Gradine]

I enjoy Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, where the section on Brevity proceeds as follows:

"Omit needless words."

 

[Guest 7034872]

So the new Glitchling race in UA got me going...

 

[Ryujin]

When replies get so long you need multi-quote to follow them. They are objectively too long.

Otoh..If you can't blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bs I guess.

I was once on a forum on which one particular poster would break a relatively short post down into individual bits, then write a paragraph or more of rebuttal to each. Seriously; sometimes this guy would break up a single sentence to argue as if there were separate points in it. It took a little while to figure out how to deal with him; smash it all back together and give a short response. It infuriated him

 

[dragoner]

I thought breaking up posts was akin to trolling

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I was once on a forum on which one particular poster would break a relatively short post down into individual bits, then write a paragraph or more of rebuttal to each. Seriously; sometimes this guy would break up a single sentence to argue as if there were separate points in it.

Maybe he was just going all Roland Barthes on the posts?

"I'm not trolling you; I am trying to understand the semiotics of your posts by deconstructing the text and exposing the fact that it has multiple signifiers that do not refer to the same fixed signified."

There is a fine line between clever and stupid, after all!

 

[billd91]

I thought breaking up posts was akin to trolling

It shouldn't, if used with sensible moderation. I see it as more like posting walls of text with no paragraph breaks. It's technically OK, but really annoying if you go overboard with it.
Breaking up posts to direct responses to a particular point can be helpful if done well.

 

[Ryujin]

It shouldn't, if used with sensible moderation. I see it as more like posting walls of text with no paragraph breaks. It's technically OK, but really annoying if you go overboard with it.
Breaking up posts to direct responses to a particular point can be helpful if done well.

This guy was breaking up several sentences in order to respond to each of them, individually and differently, when they were part of a single coherent thought.

 

[billd91]

This guy was breaking up several sentences in order to respond to each of them, individually and differently, when they were part of a single coherent thought.

So he was the poster boy for using the practice immoderately.

 

[dragoner]

Yes, it's the doing it too much, and having too many breaks, as well as often posting with multiple tangents.

 

[Ryujin]

Yes, it's the doing it too much, and having too many breaks, as well as often posting with multiple tangents.

As I said, even breaking up single sentences. That's pretty extreme.

 

[dragoner]

As I said, even breaking up single sentences. That's pretty extreme.

That is totally doing it. I remember years ago, watching people troll on the myspace forums, some of it was like an art form, esp in the religion and philosophy, or politics subforums.

 

[el-remmen]

I have at least two more "True/False" poll statements lined up for tomorrow and the day after, and plan to continue to post them daily as the inspiration strikes.

Do I have a secret agenda with these posts?

 

[payn]

I have at least two more "True/False" poll statements lined up for tomorrow and the day after, and plan to continue to post them daily as the inspiration strikes.

Do I have a secret agenda with these posts?

Im sure at the end, whatever theory you had, will be proven absolutely correct.