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.

I’ve had that happen to me before too, but it doesn’t make sense then that it sometimes happens and sometimes doesn’t. It also doesn’t make sense that it continues after you already told him how to fix it. You can only fuck up so many quotes, ignore so many actual responses about your point while responding only to supposed ad hominem attacks before it becomes increasingly suspicious that you’re just trolling everyone.

I don't know whether it happens every time because I don't use the multiquote function very often... I tried it once or twice but that was enough, especially given that bug, to make me decide against using it in the future. I don't think he's a poe... though I will accept mockery for all time if I'm wrong ... just an old dude who's rarely/never used a computer before. Like I could just imagine my mum going through this exact same process, and messing it up just as much, that's why it seems plausible to me. But I think it's most likely that he's just pressing the wrong button... pressing 'quote' instead of reply, at times at least, and thus putting things in the multiquote list, as well as forgetting to check the bottom of the screen to see if anything is still in that list... which is something you shouldn't have to do before every post if it weren't for that bug, so understandable why it would be frustrating to have to do that and/or something you could easily forget.

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If he would simply click 'Reply' and respond to one post at a time (which multiple people have suggested), then it wouldn't be (as much of) an issue.

I agree, but unfortunately it's hard to explain all this stuff without screenshots, if it's the actual user interface... the buttons... he's having problems with.

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I mean seriously, he keeps pretending he doesn’t understand what the word “this” means when it’s been previously defined in the same post or even the same sentence.

By 'this' I understand that to mean he has difficulty understanding/remembering context. That is he prefers terms to be clearly named or defined at the point he reads them, rather than referring back to something previously named/defined with the words 'this' or 'that'. I have a similar problem sometimes, when reading a book, when I wish it would just name something rather than call it 'this' or 'that', so I can be sure I know what it's talking about.

Emjay, again, thank you, precisely, when people, especially a person in authority around here, employs "this" when attempting to explain something to me, and, thereby, totally loses me, I am simply left hanging, stuck; and, then, the authority person does not even bother to respond to one's imploring requests to explain why, perhaps, one should always use the quote button, when, in fact, the reply button is so smooth and easy...now, I am being blamed for something the artificial intelligence mediating this site is doing, by mistake...this is spiraling into such extreme difficulty in dealing with the artificially intelligent robot, and, so much energy is being invested in wrangling about  the retarded robot, no one has even noticed,  that in my last response to Robvalue, I finally expressed what I am saying in a relatively simple, and, very straightforward manner, which deserves kudo ! ? Negatio.