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.

Oh, wow, emjay, what a perfectly expressed and humanitarian instruction, wow, now I see !  The members railed at my for ten straight days speaking to "quoting", "...you're not quoting correctly !...", so, I employed the quote function, and, then, that became a disaster !  I am not really going to let all of the AI stuff get me down, I will learn in time, and so many beautiful members are coming to my rescue...this is both nice, and a damn nightmare ! Negatio.

Cool Have you clicked 'deselect'? Since that old post is still quoted above, it looks like you haven't. You really do need to do that now, and any time in the future when you press "Reply" and see an old post that you're not replying to being quoted, also do it then, because that will indicate that you've accidentally pressed the "Quote" button.

There's also something else you need to know about, along similar lines. Like I said, if it says 'author Wrote:' at the top of any quote that it means it will alert the user in question. There's a function of the site that basically concatenates (joins together) posts if they happen too close together in time... I think it's within two hours or something. It's to stop people spamming a thread with many posts in a row; what it does in that situation is adds them to the end of the previous post, with a long horizontal line separating them. So if this has happened then though you may have posted say ten individual replies, they'll all show in one single post, with each one separated by a horizontal line. So given that concatenation effect, if you then reply to such a post, you are in fact replying to several posts in one... which means that even it you are no longer suffering from the multiquote problem, you may still be quoting people needlessly, and thus alerting them. The only way around that is to actually edit the post to remove the quotes you don't want, as I've done here in my reply to you. But we can work on that... let's first get the multiquote problem sorted

ejmay, You are absolutely correct, I forgot to deselect, even after you just now have cautioned me.  Let me tell you something which may help members to understand a bit more about all these mistakes.  I live in an intensely agricultural remote area in Kentucky, USA.  I put a little Ivory tower at the very top of a tall hill which I own, and, on July 16, I was up there, reading, writing, and just hanging-out, when, one of these enormous oversize tractors came within just a few feet of my building, spraying what I thought to be fertilizer, however, it turned out to be Roundup.  Roundup is a horrid cocktail of multiple poisons.  The precipitate overspray burned my lungs, and made them sore, however, I noticed immediately that it spaced-me-out, slowed my mental responses, hurt my cognitive function; now, some time later, my lungs are not burning, the coughing is clearing up, however, I am still somewhat, a little, spaced-out, and, being tired, from all the stress joining this forum has induced, I am making mistakes, very sorry, I do apologize, and, I so do appreciate your noble assistance, emjay, you are a deeply good human being. Negatio.