Ontological Disproof of God

[negatio]

Hmm...

My pro-tips for operating on this forum, OP. First is to accurately use the quotation function. I can see you’re able to edit posts quite easily, and indeed utilise common forum languages and shorthand (OP is an example), so I’m not sure why you’re unable to use this when the BB code is actually very simple and user friendly.

Not doing this is both frustrating for other members who are trying to communicate with you (responding without quoting will not alert them, and if you start cutting and moving text and not adding in additional quotation tags it stymies the flow of your post at best and makes it unreadable at worst) and, to be frank, draws suspicion.

In addition, I’m not here to tell people how to write their posts, but from my long experience moderating and posting on a wide number of forums, people who refer to themselves in the 3rd person, and write in an overly verbose and tangential fashion, are often not genuine in their attempts at discourse. Again, I’m not here to tell you how to write, but the reaction you will (continue) to get from posters is one of frustration and annoyance as people will find it very difficult to decipher what it is you’re trying to say (and that’s not due to a lack of comepetencies on their part, many of our members are very well read in a wide variety of disciplines as you’ll see from perusing previous threads). People want to talk to other members, but if it feels like they’re having a conversation with a poorly programmed chat bot, they’ll soon lose interest.

Those are my pro tips - take them or leave them.

OP can mean original post or original poster. So they’re either referring to your first post or to you specifically.

Yes, thank you.  Why is a box with KevinM1's "I am not a troll." constantly appearing in some sort of sub-ground on my thread, from August 21st ??? Negatio.

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I can see you’re able to edit posts quite easily, and indeed utilise common forum languages and shorthand (OP is an example), so I’m not sure why you’re unable to use this

You lost me at "this", what this ?  Negatio.

Stop quoting things you’re not even responding to. I’ve got 3 alerts here for nothing.

I think he's multiquoting without meaning to. And I think there's a bug in that process anyway, since it sometimes leaves one of the posts in the multiquote list selected even after posting the post with the quotes in, when it should be completely clearing that list. So I've had the same problem several times in the past as what seems to be happening for him; of it dragging around a single old post of mine because it didn't properly clear the multiquote list after posting.

emjay, thank you so very much for defending me here, I have absolutely no idea whatsoever what Losty is referring to. I AM NOT QUOTING THINGS I'M NOT EVEN RESPONDING TO; given my practically non-existent understanding of BB code, I cannot even consistently correctly quote what I am, in fact, responding to !  I am going to take Jormungandr's advice and go into Source Mode, I hope.  Negatio