(October 29, 2013 at 7:30 am)LastPoet Wrote:(October 29, 2013 at 12:20 am)freedomfromfallacy Wrote:
My first suggestion is that any member that comes across a misquote, to report the post in question so the staff can analise it and fix the quote, warning the user if we find it done as maliciously.
My second suggestion is for you to avoid making wrongful accusations towards other members. Orogenicman quoted GC, not you. You know, baseless accusations may cause people to stop taking you seriously.
My third suggestion is not to tell people the green arrow (by adding the PID of the post to the quote header) is mandatory. The rule that says to quote others accurately doesn't make that mandatory, just that the quote contents must be accurate. Not everyone is as skillfull as you are with myBB tags.
My fourth suggestion is that if you truly want to help, explain the person in question how to use the tags, instead of implying pretenciosly that the other was being somehow dishonest.
PS- I'm not being a dick, I'm just keeping things on the up and up by suggesting realistic, and respectable boundaries.
And for the record, I did it the way I did it because I only wanted to quote the one sentence, not the entire ridiculous diatribe, and so the way I did it was the easiest way to do that.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
