OK, I wasn't absolutely clear on what I was talking about. What I wanted to go elsewhere was a tiny part of your message 39, and what was in messages 40 and 41:
Omni, in message 39, writes:
I'm glad to hear he apologized, but that wasn't in any reply to me--I responded to what he had to say directly to my objection. You have a problem with that?
Taz's message 40 was specifically confined to reply to the above quoted. It had no considerations of racism - It was procedural considerations.
Your message 41 was specifically confined to reply to Taz's message. Again, there was no considerations of racism.
Omni, in message 41, writes:
Thank you for the painstaking elaboration, Taz. So you are saying that I have to read every intervening thread before I reply to a response?
No thanks.
That's not why we have subthread reply linkage, eh?
But I know Moose will appreciate your concern.
I think it is desirable that you are aware that 2+ days had passed, and that there had been 31 messages since that message 5 - Your message 37 was in reply to message 5. Might you consider that the "boy" aspect might well have been beaten to death by others in between messages 5 and 37?
This is what I wanted to go elsewhere, as I suggested in message 42.
Now I insist that any further discussion of forum procedural considerations do go elsewhere. 24 hour suspension(s) will result otherwise.
Adminnemooseus
Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots.
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