platon
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"All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.? Tolstoy
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Post by platon on Feb 19, 2020 14:33:10 GMT -8
I am moving your post to the Dungeon, for posterity. It's good to move off topic conversations over there. The verbiage worries some. While you can move the conversation there, you are copying the post and pasting it there, and not actually moving the underlying post. I do the same thing sometimes, mainly when following up a couple days later in the daily thread, while it is still pertinent. Carry on Sorry 4aapl. I misspoke, I should have said copying instead of moving. I have admitted my mistake to Chinacat in a PM, though he/she was not as nice as you in telling me that I lack communication skills, I do however realize I was the one who made the mistake.
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platon
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Post by platon on Feb 19, 2020 14:50:34 GMT -8
I think that would be a great idea. Platon would make a great Moderator. No-can-do Dave. As Chinacat pointed out (in a PM) my communication skills are not near clear enough and I am not near nice enough, to not let my political biases come through. I think the moderators here do a really good job and they are pretty well balanced. 4aapl is one of the best moderators I have come across and he seems to be consistent to me. I know I have made mistakes and he lets me know in a way that I can easily apologize for and agree with. He is right that it will be a job to keep the overtly political stuff off the daily thread during this season of politics. I am participating on 6 forums at the current time, 2 Conservative, 2 Liberal and 2 I consider agnostic such as this one, and I am content to do nothing more than express my beliefs and of course to stay within the rules.
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platon
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Post by platon on Feb 19, 2020 15:11:53 GMT -8
It's good to move off topic conversations over there. The verbiage worries some. While you can move the conversation there, you are copying the post and pasting it there, and not actually moving the underlying post. I do the same thing sometimes, mainly when following up a couple days later in the daily thread, while it is still pertinent. Carry on I agree with you in one respect. No problem moving something to the Dungeon to comment about it. It is a problem, however, if the person moving it has to leave this kind of *comment* in the daily before moving it: No comment here but I am moving your post to the Dungeon, for posterity. I will refer to it often over the next few years and it won't matter which party is in charge politically. Some comments are so telling they must be preserved. Without the history people can just make up later what they said and did. I advise you to renew your pledge to stay away from the Dungeon, "you can't handle the truth".Doesn't this really defeat the whole purpose of moving it to the Dungeon in the first place? One needn't preface one's *comment* with, "No comment here but", just move the post to the Dungeon, and *then* they can comment to their heart's content. Perhaps I went too far in my explanation to Firestorm as to why I was "copying" his post to the Dungeon. I sometimes get caught up in the conversation and forget brevity is the spice of life on Forums, and for that I apologize. I had to let Firestorm know that I copied the post to the Dungeon so he could respond freely. I also want people to know that if they use the daily thread to make political comments that I disagree with that I will respond to them in the dungeon. Perhaps I went too far, but there would be more context for you if you read the last post Firestorm made in the Dungeon where he inferred that my post was a lie. It clearly was not. One other thing, I try to address these posts that I intend to address in the Dungeon once a new day has begun so I don't disrupt the current daily thread. Anyway, sorry if the post offended you and I will try to limit my response to the OP if I copy something to the dungeon in the future.
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Post by 4aapl on Feb 19, 2020 16:53:42 GMT -8
Sorry 4aapl. I misspoke, I should have said copying instead of moving. I have admitted my mistake to Chinacat in a PM, though he/she was not as nice as you in telling me that I lack communication skills, I do however realize I was the one who made the mistake. Not a problem. There was just a little confusion, as words that mean things in one context mean something else in a different context. Thanks everyone, for continually trying to do the right thing. May it pay off in spades, especially on the price of AAPL!
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Post by firestorm on Feb 20, 2020 7:34:11 GMT -8
Removed by the poster as inappropriate, with full apology to all.
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Post by 4aapl on Feb 20, 2020 7:40:18 GMT -8
Yes, for the Trump News Daily. (and then edited to "Yes, for the Trump Ass-Kissing News.") Come on Firestorm. There's no reason to add that quip here. Head on over the to Dungeon if you want. Or, self-moderate yourself. Remember, non-moderators have the luxury of setting a user to be ignored, so you won't even see posts. Sometimes it's tempting to renounce all moderatorship just for that feature.
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Post by firestorm on Mar 5, 2020 5:36:56 GMT -8
Yes, for the Trump News Daily. (and then edited to "Yes, for the Trump Ass-Kissing News.") Come on Firestorm. There's no reason to add that quip here. Head on over the to Dungeon if you want. Or, self-moderate yourself. Remember, non-moderators have the luxury of setting a user to be ignored, so you won't even see posts. Sometimes it's tempting to renounce all moderatorship just for that feature. Fair enough, I let my anger get the better of me.
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