oh! FFS , Al, you are really going out of your way to take offence at my posts, aren't you?
I don't think so. It seems a pretty natural reaction. Especially given the site's history not of granting
thumbs for clever discussion so much as discussion which agrees with one's point of view (which was
likely the case for some of the other thumbers involved in this one - certainly was with me). Singling
a post out on that criteria is shallow; using it to insult everyone else's contributions mean spirited.
Why would you be surprised that people take your post that way?
well, at least you take it as an insult to
everyone else's contributions. I'm [retty damned sure that Al read it as a snide attack on himself. And I'm really getting sick of him of doing that. It;'s been a problem for
months on-and-off.
I read your karma comment Cal. You called El's post "nuanced" , which was the exact same thing that impressed me about El's post , though I tried to put it in different words, rather than look like a copy-cat. So I'm surprised to hear you say, now, that you were merely agreeing with her POV.. I guess I read rather too much into that word? I thought you were plussing that post for the exact same reason I did. *shrug*
.But nuanced it is, and we don't get an awful lot of that sort of thing on this forum, but I'm sure it's mostly because people just can't be arsed ., not because they can't think . In fact, we haven't been getting much intelligent discussion at all, as numerous people have observed, though I do think it's on the up , lately. And i like to show my appreciation for that
I didn't "single the post out just because it got three thumbs-ups or rarther two (excluding mine) , though i
can see how my reply could be read that way. I was just navigating by karma , when I found it, like I said (actually, a lazy way of catching most of the intersting post when I don't have time to read everything. Often disappointing, as I said, cos it casts to wide a net, and
still misses some good bits. But hey ho. I
do find others' reactions intersting, anyway, so there's a bonus.
I surely don't slavishly agree with popular opinion! (I'm more often accused of the opposite *chuckle* ) But I
was genuinely pleased that other people liked Elle's post for the same reaon I did (or so it seemed)
I know karma is relatively meaningless, but, still, a lot of us
do quite often give positive karma for totally sincere reasons, self included
Anyway, the real point was that Elle's post was a breath of fresh air. Not the
only breath of fresh air on this forum, nor even on this thread. I've plussed a whole bunch of other posts, from a bunch of opther posters for the same reason, as you ought to know, cos you were one of the people I plussed! So why the heck would i suiddenly want to insult all those people now? I didn't intend to insult anybody at all, just referring to an oft-repeated complaint about this place.
Now, I'm willing to explain myself in great detail to yiou , Cal. cos you haven't aggressively demanded explanations, then demanded explanations for the explananation, and so in, until it's practically a full-time job, and clearly a futile endeavour.
I'm very sorry if you, or anybody else ( with one exception) read an unintended insult into my post. I really didn't expect that!
But, here's the exception: I'm
not sorry if Al did, because he does that all the time, and I'm past caring . I'll just be happy if he leaves me alone.