running_coach:
I don’t do the “bolding mine ” thing.
I think most of the time “bolding mine ” is to avoid any possible accusation of changing a quote.
Same here. I include the other stuff if there is a worry that someone will say I am quoting out of context.
That or the person claims they never said X, Y & Z so I bold X, Y & Z to highlight that they did, in fact, say it.
Also, the mods here are very touchy (understandably) about modifying a quote so you need to be explicit if you fiddle with it in any way.
Whack-a-Mole:
Same here. I include the other stuff if there is a worry that someone will say I am quoting out of context.
That or the person claims they never said X, Y & Z so I bold X, Y & Z to highlight that they did, in fact, say it.
Also, the mods here are very touchy (understandably) about modifying a quote so you need to be explicit if you fiddle with it in any way.
Interestingly, the rules aren’t clear on this.
Can I modify other poster’s quotes?
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Yep, it’s really hard to claim somebody took something out of context when they quote the actual context.
NETA: Yes. Double Ninja’ed. But I avoid underlining (except when I’ve already overloaded a sentence with italics AND boldness and need a way to denote a tertiary emphasis Because some snarky Doper(s) complain when an underlined phrase doesn’t enclose a URL link. :smack:
Would denounce
Knowed_Out:
This is really more of an IMHO than a Pit, so I’ll try to increase the vitriol a bit.
I hereby renounce you future Fox News contributors who quote somebody’s entire post, then bold the parts you object to because you consider them especially egregious, and then add that little self-righteous pastiche at the end, “Bolding mine.”
Since you’re so intent on focusing on the few words that upset you and decided to ignore the rest of the post, you’re literally guilty of taking things out of context. You could just as easily have deleted the other words and not do the extra formatting, but you decided instead to express passive-aggressive contempt with “Bolding mine.” It’s as if the entire point they were making is rendered invalid because they used a few words that don’t meet with your precious moral standards. In addition, you couldn’t address the salient point they were making because you don’t have the ammunition to shoot it down, so you focus on a marginally unpatriotic/politically incorrect portion to wag your nanny fingers at. You then beat the dead horse to pad out your participation in the thread, because you have uniquely special values that the rest of the internets needs to observe.
And yes, I realize some of you are going to do the “Bolding mine” treatment to this post to attempt to personally annoy me. I already called you out on it, so it won’t be funny when you do it - not that it would have been funny in the first place. I already guessed the punchline to your limpdick joke and ruined it, bitches .
Why do you hate Balding Mimes?
Knowed Out , I’mma let you finish, but this was the dumbest Pit thread of all time.
I have never seen anyone use ‘‘bolding mine’’ the way you’ve categorized it in the OP. Do you have a particular example stuck in your craw? Share it with us and we can make fun of that person instead.
Oh come on, half the shit on this board is people putting words in someone else’s mouth and then arguing against it.
The most typical way I use ‘‘Bolding Mine’’ is ''I agree with all this other stuff you said, but not with this bit, right here."
Or in cases where the thing I’m responding to would just look really weird out of context.
“Or in other words…” is a method often used for that.
As many have pointed out, the OP has the whole ‘out of context’ thing entirely wrong.
And he may recognize this at this point, being that he has not returned to his thread.
Or maybe he’s gone missing, perhaps trapped in a bolding mine.
It’s usually like this:
Poster 1: “ABC.”
Poster 2: “Are you saying XYZ? You didn’t NOT say XYZ! Blah blah blah.”
Instead of signatures, people should have disclaimer manifestos.
In 18 years on this board, I’m sure I’ve seen dumber*, but it’s certainly a contender.I started that may be dumber than this one. But not by much.