(September 4, 2018 at 7:45 pm)negatio Wrote: Members are so predominantly, radically, paranoid, regaring this "trolling/troll" nonsensical-supersition-barrier-to-communicating-with-newbies, that they fail to see an authentic rustic struggling with the hyper-complexities of, actually, for the very first time ever, in an otherwise totally computer-friendly world, instructing a computer, via BB code, to address another human being on an Atheist/Agnostic Forum, which address, requires employment of computer code to respond to others on the forum:
It is not unwarranted superstition/paranoia because trolling does happen a lot on this forum, but I do believe that in this case you've most likely been unfairly caught in the crossfire. In other words, I do believe you are sincere, and I do believe you're just trying to get the hang of an unfamiliar computing environment. And I feel like shit for overreacting with you. So, so be it if everyone else thinks I'm being gullible, but I think you're sincere and this is all a big misunderstanding.
And in this latest business, I should not have jumped to conclusions, nor been so black and white... 'absolutist'... about it in any case. So, I apologise; I overreacted and I was a dick.
Quote:(which was repeatedly proffered to Negatio in an effort to assist him in attaining-to proper conduct within this forum), was, systematically misleading. Thus, kindly member intention to explicate code, in fact, obfuscated a desired understanding, on the part of the newbie,of the process of correctly, respectfully, replying to members of the forum----- i.e., putting the single cap around 'author', unintentionally misled a struggling newbie. Ignorant; confused; unintentionally misled; and, unable to readily comprehend what the structure of the BB code was made to achieve, the newbie became a laughingstock; an assured ''troll'', who was, for certain, surreptitiously trolling members; and, at the same time, the newbie, tendent to overthink things like Texas hold-em, could not penetrate an overwhelming unfamiliarity that is computer code. The forum's Reply/Quote platform is an efficient and effiacious torture chamber for newbies... Negatio.
I accept the blame for that. Your quotes were messed up at the start so we had to address the issue of how to quote properly, but going in the BBCode direction was probably a bad idea, especially for someone who the very idea of tags was a foreign concept. The average user doesn't need to use BBCode directly... or at least not much, and should be able to get along just fine just using the Reply button, but for whatever reason, you were having problems with that from the very start. So since then we've just been going round the houses trying to solve the problems but it's just been making it worse and overwhelming you with jargon and technical information that with no background in this stuff, is not reasonable to expect you to be able to understand overnight. So I'm sorry negatio. Just forget all about BBCode, if you can, and just use the Reply button (but still not the Quote button) and just click your cursor into the blank space below the quote your replying to, and type your reply there. That's all there is, or should be, to it.
As for the forum Reply/Quote forum being torturous for newbies, I have to give you fair warning then that a lot of forums use this same software, so do Replies/Quoting the same way. So if you want to move on to other forums, just be aware of that.
