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Gosh, I'm sorry.

I thought it was understood that we are human beings exactly like the rest of the membership, quirks, snark, bad days and all.

I think it is very strange to find someone else's unattributed words in a block of text that you wrote. And I am entitled to that opinion.

I am not particularly good at interpreting certain kinds of subtlety from other people so I may have been wrong in reading your post about waiting all weekend for a response as a snarky and entitled complaint.

If so please accept my apology for responding in erroneously perceived kind.

I truly despair.
Who has time to wait on the mods?

@ Adamantium: Sure, we all have bad days----but, you were NOT, IMO, responding the way you did, because you were having a bad day; IMO, PURE emotion was driving you to post in that manner----AND, you were NOT, IMO, "just kidding" when you said: "And what if my earliest convenience is never?". You, IMO, saw RED when you read, things like what I put about what Alex said, and when I put the qualifier "at your earliest convenience" because, apparently you thought, maybe, that I was ordering you----but, that's EXACTLY why I added the phrase "at your earliest convenience", SPECIFICALLY, so you would NOT think I was ordering you.

My saying "I've been waiting all weekend for you to return my post to its original state" was not intended, in any way, shape, or form, to be snarky----"ENTITLED", YES, because I feel I had been done wrong, and I feel I was entitled to have it rectified, because, IMO, it should've never been changed, to-begin-with. Like I said, I don't feel a Moderator's personal feelings, tastes, whatever should be injected into their decisions.

As for your posting in a color similar to mine..... I figure it's your way of trying to teach me a lesson----like what you were saying, before: "anyone could tag up their writing with the purple color..... But what are the odds of that? Wait, did I write that or did you? This could get confusing!"----and, if that was, in fact, what you were doing, as you can see, I didn't take the bait. If anyone else had posted in that color, I would've just responded in my USUAL way, if they had several paragraphs, to which I wanted to make a comment.

What?

yes i have no idea what i was on about in that post. i did have 3 beers and was obviously not thinking well.
the only sense i can make of it is that you often start threads and argue about how unfair the dating scene is and maybe i was thinking about that in relationship to you being a good mod.
maybe i was thinking you would be a good mod because you are fair and humerous and clear headed and not an irritable person, but it is a shame that you may make judgments biased toward the lonely men or something.
other than that i can not see it's relevance (my post's) to this thread so sorry.

You feel you were done wrong???

Not a single word of your communication was changed. The "wrong" you are discussing was putting your quote in standard format, when it looked to me like you had inadvertently broken the quote function. I find it amusing that you think you are entitled to get bent out of shape about that, when your quoting style did exactly the same thing to my post: you changed the quote format around my words, inserting your own in the box tagged "Adamantium said."

Why you think you are entitled to get irritated by that, but that I have done you some wrong in doing less--no unattributed words of mine appeared attributed to you--is a mystery to me.

I don't care. I am perplexed that you do, but the world is full of motivations I don't understand. I will do my best to be tolerant of your quirks and only ask that you do the same.

As for responding with emotion, you are correct. I am an emotional being, as are we all.

This isn't the megacorporation WrongPlanet, GmbH with a corporate culture that requires members to pretend not to be human but instead adopt the "corporate culture" and subsume their individuality to the persona crafted to support the brand.

It's more like the co-operative community center WrongPlanet, staffed by volunteers who bring their full humanity, including their emotions and personalities, as they try to help.

I try to behave well, as it's the only way to add something positive to the atmosphere of the site, about which I care deeply. But I do get annoyed when I feel that people think they have right to be rude and unpleasant to me and sometimes I respond with a little edge. This is part of what being a human is, I think.

^^ Okey-dokey, then.....

i can not determine the meaning of this i am sorry.

again i find it difficult to interpret the meaning of this.


wow we are not on the same "wavelength" i guess, because for the 3rd time, i find it impossible to extract any logical meaning from your words.

i have said things in posts that are entirely inconsiderate to the person who i say them to, and sometimes i post as if i am talking to the TV where no one can hear me. just a few minutes ago, someone was on a TV advertisement for a reality TV show and said "i just can't guess what the outcome will be" and my immediate thought was "that's a shame, because "guessing" is about all you're capable of doing" and i thought that in an funny way that was kind of humerous, but i sometimes think of things in that same vein, and post them to other posters on the forum, and i forget that they can really hear me and care about it, and i get warned by the moderators about it.



i maybe stupid, or you may have a particular literary style to your wording that eludes me, but i don't know what that means either.

at least i respected the fact you quoted me and showed the consideration of replying to the best of my ability.

Article 50 is an EU directive. It needs to be evoked in order for a country to leave the EU. The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, is not likely to evoke Article 50 until France and Germany have elected new leaders.

I don't think apologising is in everyone's good intentions but, I was addressing how some react to situations they never even once participated in and judge another member for it.
I'm British so I'm going to act by a nature that's usual for me.
You can't bow down to everyone's superior, especially when it's not in the right frame of interests.

I don't think you need to be educational when it comes to making the right protocol, but I can see the thorn has been left a little bit in your side, so to speak, possibly because of a false accusation.. ever heard of the term, ''if the shoe doesn't fit don't make a fuss?'
I see the art of miscontempt from other users may have squeezed the brakes a little too hard for the gears to determine what speed to pick up.

Article 50 was polite political reference to when Australia are prepared to make strong ties with the U.K, there's little
short term memory for that one.

What's also irritating, by the way, is how they say 'x' happened without even pointing out where, when, or what... I know the election is creating a fever in almost everyone's minds where evidence can simply be thrown out the window and who cares if climate change destroys whole countries... but mods should just stop using their stupid scripts and actually make a logical argument. An average person is convinced by rationality and evidence, although I assume not the average American...

Thanks Mootoo, for summing up the whole feeling to the refuted pointless argument, what's a just cause without a just cause?
The emotional repercussions are much harsher than the initial statements made, and I felt a strong affinity to one of the other members here, who felt wholely misjudged and accused too.
No one should be made to feel like another side order to a hungry queue of forlorn stereotypes and tourists.
It gets me quite mad when I see someone who supposedly cares, takes on the role of a headmaster, complete with cane and board rubber.
Why don't mods read the script they were given instead of bypassing the orders based around the number of points scored?

Nothing, I repeat nothing is an emotional understatement for any class or person, regardless of rank, colour or age.

I don't understand most of the previous few posts. Mania?

how the hell can a forum of 50,000 members be all corralled and herded into gateways of expression?

but i know they must.

i don't care about anything i read on this site to a point where it affects me, so i am sitting up on a fence watching all you cattle just being compressed through the maze of rules and protocols that govern what you say.

and your wants and your other stuff.

but the thing i notice on this site is that people who do not make valid points are most often ignored, and maybe a program that derives input from either validation or rejection could be used to weed out the bad people, but who knows? you just got to keep humans doing the work in some factories.


how can anyone be pan-communicative?

I really don't know what the problem is.

I notice the people who get upset the most practically live here, and forget that ultimately the site is a place with resources to cope in the real world, and for us to hang out and support each other. This isn't 1984, and the mods aren't your personal gestapo for when there are people who say or do things you don't agree with, nor are they the gestapo when they do their job in a way you don't like. There are rules for that and for the most part they are followed. They're volunteers. Give them a break.

I admit, the recent title changing was a bit of a nuisance but in the grand scheme of things it's trivial. When I want to measure how much something matters, I tend to ask myself if someone would scoff at the conversation in a bar or at the supermarket or a place where you'd normally go to hang out. You might see that as dismissive but I always believe it's important to have perspective.

I couldn't do the job, nor would I want to, even if it was paid and I had spare time to give...

Maybe there would be a member base preference for mods without social or communication challenges?