Active Users:317 Time:16/05/2024 01:10:44 AM
You put me in a difficult position, caught between two important principles. - Edit 1

Before modification by Joel at 11/05/2011 08:52:44 PM

beating.

OK, we have an accord, simply because Dan Brown fans are factually as well as aesthetically challenged. It's the difference between disliking people because they're Democrats and disliking Obama because he's a Muslim terrorist.

For convenience, since my internet is trashed, I'm responding to your above comment on paged/nested threads here: It's more than laziness, else I'd be able to quote and respond to both here very conveniently, and would. I wouldn't spend five hours (so far... ) reading todays posts in the thread and only be through half of them, and wouldn't have made more posts than I can remember in this one thread. I'd probably have a couple yesterday and a couple more today, with each person to whom I responded quoted separately in the SAME POST. There are advantages to both formats, which is another reason why I don't like forcing anyone to use one they don't like: They prefer one because it has advantages the other lacks, and listing all the advantages the other has over the one they prefer won't change that. That's mainly reiteration of what I said to Palatine and Darth Katie above (and separately, perforce).

The comment you made to which I wanted to respond was the (hopefully facetious) one asking whether we really want people too lazy to click on every post to read the whole thread. My thoughts on that are equally appropriate in this discussion about the WoTMB: Seeing people who want paged threads met with the same "well, we don't want THEM anyway" attitude WoT so often is doesn't exactly make me optimistic about RAFOs future. If you were simply making a jest I shouldn't have taken seriously, my apologies, but, whether or not it's valid, I get that impression a lot at RAFO. Granted it hasn't put me off the site, but I'm not as worried about the villagers showing up with torches as the average newb might be (and, let's be fair, the quality of my posting over the years has been inversely proportional to how much what people think concerns me.

EDIT: Also, you're bad luck.

Return to message