Anidea about citing another's posts...

[DGUtley]

The idea is that you cannot change the meaning. For example, say I post:



Someone edits in good faith if they do this:


This would also be in good faith and not change the meaning:


Someone edits in bad faith and changes the meaning if they do this, although I technically wrote all of these words:

@Adelaide ...so you aren't ridiculous?

[jet57]

I'm not going to say which thread this happened in, but earlier, a poster was thread-banned because he snipped out a bit of my post when he responded to me.

I've seen that happen before, but I've also taken part in that, and I wish that wasn't considered to be "altering" the post of another.

Sometime's posters make incredibly long posts and if you want to respond, you have to Reply to the entire thing. I think that can be confusing. At least it is to me.

Anyway, I think it should be okay to respectfully snip out parts of a poster's post to specify the focus of the response.

For example -- cutting out extraneous parts but leaving in an entire sentence. Would that be okay?

Sometimes, I will embolden certain words and then respond just to them, but I never know if the other poster really knows what I'm doing.

I mean, as long as we don't change the wording--wouldn't that be okay? I only ask because I was really looking forward to engaging the thread-banned poster in more debate on the subject. What do others think?

The righties here do that to me all the time. It;s a form of lying. They change your post (which is against the rule) in order to change the context of your opinion and pick on a single line that the other righties of course think is your opinion.

And -- they get away with it.

[Tahuyaman]

The righties here do that to me all the time. It;s a form of lying. They change your post (which is against the rule) in order to change the context of your opinion and pick on a single line that the other righties of course think is your opinion.

And -- they get away with it.

No one changes your posts. Why would they? It’s unnecessary.

[Adelaide]

@Adelaide ...so you aren't ridiculous?

I'm fabulous.

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