Posted by so on June 15, 2005, at 19:35:59
In reply to Re: Posting hypotheticals » so, posted by gardenergirl on June 15, 2005, at 12:12:47
> I never said you were not asking a question. Yet the statements are there in your question.
If we go looking for embedded statements, or onomatopoeic phrases, we can find them all over. I think we agree that in no way did I indicate any suggestion that I hold the sort of opinions referenced hypothetically in my post, which referred to a message that was allowed to remain on the board some 12 days, during which time similar statements were posted in reference to other public policies, before the administrator clarified that those sort of statements are not accepted here -- at least on occassions when someone claims to feel put down by the statement.
Which raises another interested area of research --- what is the longest period of time that has passed between the time a message has been posted and the occassion on which the administrator has posted a don't-write-that-here advisory.
>If someone were to post "Is it okay if I post 'GG is a moron'?",
I don't recall anyone write anything that regarding a particular poster, and prior to today i don't recall anyone writing such a phrase with suggestions for hypothetical word replacement regarding any individual poster.
In response to the hypothetical question, no, if someone had written a phrase such as you suggest in response to an actual phrase --- "A wrote X about B, what if B were also to write X about A?" especially when there seemed to be a prolonged pause in administrative involvement in the matter, I would consider it a reasonable effort to communicate a delima that might be confounding poster B.
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