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The Usage of the Non-Sequitur "4e is a Tactical Skirmish Game"
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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5984619" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>I think it's two things, really, though lately this particular statement has morphed into almost pure "goad":</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An example of how people (i.e. all of us) use imprecise language, made even more so without face-to-face interaction, sometimes trying to get to an idea. It's the nature of the internet.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">People hiding behind that nature to goad while largely shielded from the consequences.</li> </ul><p>Because of this, I prefer to give the first N times of such statements a free pass and/or ask for clarification. After some time, however, the responsibility moves to the speaker to at least acknowledge prior discussion somewhat. </p><p> </p><p>Lately, people well over N and showing no signs of improvement go straight to my ignore list. It wastes my time and everyone else's for me to reply to their posts. But worse, they use up all tolerance for the poor newbies that blunder innocently into these discussions. The worst I've ever felt about a post was tearing a strip off a new poster because his poor expression of a thought happened to sound a lot like the goads that were circulating heavily that month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5984619, member: 54877"] I think it's two things, really, though lately this particular statement has morphed into almost pure "goad": [LIST] [*]An example of how people (i.e. all of us) use imprecise language, made even more so without face-to-face interaction, sometimes trying to get to an idea. It's the nature of the internet. [*]People hiding behind that nature to goad while largely shielded from the consequences. [/LIST]Because of this, I prefer to give the first N times of such statements a free pass and/or ask for clarification. After some time, however, the responsibility moves to the speaker to at least acknowledge prior discussion somewhat. Lately, people well over N and showing no signs of improvement go straight to my ignore list. It wastes my time and everyone else's for me to reply to their posts. But worse, they use up all tolerance for the poor newbies that blunder innocently into these discussions. The worst I've ever felt about a post was tearing a strip off a new poster because his poor expression of a thought happened to sound a lot like the goads that were circulating heavily that month. [/QUOTE]
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