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.

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

It looks like you've forgotten again You need to do it before you post your next post... we just need to see if that solves the problem before we can move on. If not for the people, think of the database ie it's absolutely filled at the moment with redundant posts because of this thread, and every single time you post again, you're adding to that redundancy and quoting (and thus alerting) more people than you need to, so it's getting annoying for them.

emjay, I am clicking on the Reply link, I am not using Quick Reply, or Quote, which is where one has to Deselect, so you are saying I just, again, sent out multiple replies, when I replied to mh.brewer just now ?  This is so insanely weird and unwarrantedly complex that I am thinking the infinite, unfathomably complex process involved in Reply, will kill what I, in spite of ignorance of the infinite considerations attendant upon struggling with  the site's AI, have actually accomplished, in having recently become a Junior Member ! I do not see a deselect option in Replying, only in Quote and Quick Replying, I think... Then, the AI is continually incorrectly changing one's spelling, further impeding the communicative quality of one's posts. Negatio.

emjay, I am clicking on the Reply link, I am not using Quick Reply, or Quote, which is where one has to Deselect, so you are saying I just, again, sent out multiple replies, when I replied to mh.brewer just now ?  This is so insanely weird and unwarrantedly complex that I am thinking the infinite, unfathomably complex process involved in Reply, will kill what I, in spite of ignorance of the infinite considerations attendant upon struggling with  the site's AI, have actually accomplished, in having recently become a Junior Member ! I do not see a deselect option in Replying, only in Quote and Quick Replying, I think... Then, the AI is continually incorrectly changing one's spelling, further impeding the communicative quality of one's posts. Negatio.

Yes, you did just send out multiple replies again. Can you not see them in the thread after you post? All you have to do is this:

Step 1: Click 'deselect' at the bottom of the screen at the bottom of the "Quick Reply" box.
Step 2: Click "Reply" on any post you want to reply to. Never press "Quote".
Step 3: If any time in the future when you have pressed "Reply" it quotes an old post that you did not intend to quote in the edit window, then do not press "Post Reply" and instead go back to the thread, then start at step 1 again.

emjay, I just wrote a thank you/appreciate your concern to KevinM1 through Bennyboy, wrote one of my big long paragraphs to KevinM1, and, then I tried to do what you are  now advising  me to do, and, I will successfully do it, I know, however, it just erased everything I wrote to KevinM1, including the  post from Bennyboy !  Please let them know for me.  I am just going to observe the forum for a while, and, finally take the time to study the rules and the procedures you have so kindly and  patiently provided me with. Negatio.