Larry Blanchard wrote:
I've got too much time on my hands :-).
I just did a Google search on postings to this group by Tim in the last
12 months. There were 116. 5 or 6 were on woodworking topics based on
the subject line.
Just to be fair, since I've been known to get drawn into these off topic
discussions, I checked my own history. At least the first 128 Google
showed me (it omitted 202 "similar" postings). Of the 128, better than
60 were on woodworking or responding to things like Toms stories, beer
jokes, computer questions, etc..
So I'm on topic about 50% of the time. Tim's on topic about 5% of the
time.
I wanted to make sure I wasn't being unfair in adding him to my
killfile :-).
First, thank you for my very own thread.
Second, Good Manners dictates that you mark this sort of thing OT, or at
the very least mark it a META thread since it is NOT about WWing.
Third, you might continue your deep statistical analysis by examining
just how many OT threads I actually *start*. In my recollection, it
is few. But I will not sit back and watch other people pitch bad ideas,
dangerous to my future, hence I get involved in OT threads. But
mostly, this is well after they are underway.
Fourth, I rarely start or add to On-Topic threads because I have little
useful to say there. I am a rookie WWer, having only done it for about
8 years and anything I might add would be of little value beyond the
expertise already found here.
Fifth, if this group gnerally practiced self-restraint and avoided OTs
and/or limited them to very short exchanges, I would observe this without
reservation. In fact, most NGs I read do exactly this and I observe
the customs of the community. But you and your ilk cannot on the one
hand jump in with all of the ideological gas passing the characterizes
your posts and expect everyone else to observe a moment of silence in your
honor. I've no idea what kind of human you are - perhaps we'd be friendly
neighbors in the Real World - but by your testimony, I know your ideas
are pernicious and dangerous to Liberty, hence you get counterargument
from me and others. Lead by example, and I will be similarly still.
Fifth, I am gratified to know that I have gotten on your nerves enough that
you feel the need to make the debate about my personal posting behavior.
Squealing of this sort is almost always the evidence of the lack of
coherent ideas and it's time to go after the speaker.
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