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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8242425" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Before I go further with talking to you about this, I want to make sure that we're both on the same page with what you're saying here with the deployment of &quot;pontification&quot; for &quot;self-gratification.&quot; I don't know if you think this word is benign, but its not (pompous and dogmatic).&nbsp; If you aren't aware that you're telling me I'm pompous and dogmatic and you meant another word...totally cool, just let me know and I accept that.If you do mean it, then this is actually accidentally revelatory because it is precisely what I was looking for.&nbsp; My sense is that there is a very high likelihood that people on hobby sites perceive the kind of thing I'm talking about as pompous. And there is a not-insignificant subset of people who go on attack when they perceive pompous.So was this an accident (wrong word usage)?&nbsp; Or are you purposefully or accidentally telling me what you think (of me and of this conversation and these conversations) and what is animating you (yet the payoff is still to be determined...typically when someone attacks someone they perceive as pompous or dogmatic, they want that person to be publicly &quot;cut down to size&quot; and issue some kind of mea culpa...unclear if that is the theoretical payoff here).[HR][/HR]So I'll answer your question above, but I need to know if you're revealing exactly what I hypothesized about what is going on here (the perception of a bunch of pompous asses navel-gazing their way to self-gratification).If that is what you think...that is cool.&nbsp; I just want to hear you confirm my suspicions by cementing what you've written above.I'll still answer the rest of your post, but understand that if I had to hypothesize what drives the kind of behavior I was talking about above, it would have 100 % have been what you wrote above -&quot;...because pompous, dogmatic asses, who is navel-gazing their way to self-gratification on a public forum need to be challenged and put in their place.&quot;And understand that this reality puts us in the most hostile, most adversarial relationship possible on a message board.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 8242425, member: 6696971"] Before I go further with talking to you about this, I want to make sure that we're both on the same page with what you're saying here with the deployment of "pontification" for "self-gratification." I don't know if you think this word is benign, but its not ([B]pompous and dogmatic[/B]). If you aren't aware that you're telling me I'm pompous and dogmatic and you meant another word...totally cool, just let me know and I accept that. If you do mean it, then this is actually accidentally revelatory because it is precisely what I was looking for. My sense is that there is a very high likelihood that people on hobby sites perceive the kind of thing I'm talking about as [B]pompous[/B]. And there is a not-insignificant subset of people who go on attack when they perceive [B]pompous[/B]. So was this an accident (wrong word usage)? Or are you purposefully or accidentally telling me what you think (of me and of this conversation and these conversations) and what is animating you (yet the payoff is still to be determined...typically when someone attacks someone they perceive as pompous or dogmatic, they want that person to be publicly "cut down to size" and issue some kind of mea culpa...unclear if that is the theoretical payoff here). [HR][/HR] So I'll answer your question above, but I need to know if you're revealing exactly what I hypothesized about what is going on here (the perception of a bunch of pompous asses navel-gazing their way to self-gratification). If that is what you think...that is cool. I just want to hear you confirm my suspicions by cementing what you've written above. I'll still answer the rest of your post, but understand that if I had to hypothesize what drives the kind of behavior I was talking about above, it would have 100 % have been what you wrote above - "...because pompous, dogmatic asses, who is navel-gazing their way to self-gratification on a public forum need to be challenged and put in their place." And understand that this reality puts us in the most hostile, most adversarial relationship possible on a message board. [/QUOTE]

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