Keeping score? Nah. No more than anyone to remember who they interact with. Just as you remember my posts.
Yup.
But, as for anything else in society, this doesn’t mean that all transgressive actions are excusable.
I try to read the whole thread. If I discover one that has a thousand posts before I noticed it, and decide to reply to it anyway, I’m not likely to read the whole thousand; but I’ll read the first and last 50 or so. If I’m not going to bother doing that much, I don’t need to bother replying, after all. And I’m a fast reader.
And sometimes I’ll screw up, and hit reply without noticing that there are another 300 posts, or more commonly another 3 in a fast moving thread. In which case, if I realize it fast enough, I’ll edit my post to note that, and (at least in the first case, or if the intervening only-3 were a while ago) to apologize for it.
Thanks! I’ll try to remember that.
On more than one occasion I’ve posted to a thread, and before I click “submit”, I go back and read the last dozen or so posts…
…and lo and behold, the topic has completely changed (one time it changed from light-hearted political digs to someone’s personal health problems).
Then I’m happy I didn’t post.
@DrDeth, come on down!
I wish that when we get a pair of posters…
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On topic, there are a couple of café thread on songs that are problematic/no longer acceptable, where WELL OVER A DOZEN posters haven’t read the first 250 posts and have to mansplain yet gain about how, when Mark Knopfler used the word “faggot”, it was a redneck character saying it. And then another dozen saying “Well, actually, in England it’s a term for a cigarette…” and another dozen saying "No, that’s not how that Dire Straits song used the word, but besides [reiterate original argument].
I actually stopped reading a very intriguing thread just because there was so much chaff.
Omg, that sounds painful! Has no one mentioned that it was already splained?
…Resisting the urge to explain the background of “Money for Nothing”, its conception and composition…
Just kidding. I haven’t read the thread but I know the song well (in fact, Dire Straits was the first band I ever got into as a kid, and that was my favorite song by them at one time, though these days I much prefer “Ride Across the River”). And I know why the lyrics are what they are and what they represent. Still, regardless, it didn’t age well and that part of the song even made me uncomfortable as a kid in the 80s, let alone a middle-aged guy in 2024.
I totally understand both the annoyance that would come from mansplaining it, and the tedium from seeing the same argument again and again.
Nice!
There’s at least 6 other posters saying the same thing in that thread he wasn’t the only one and probably won’t be the last.
Everyone will have nearly the same opinion. Because it’s correct.
It’s such a non-issue, I wonder why it was ever asked.
It doesn’t have legs.
The Republicans are throwing spaghetti against wall to see what sticks.
His points were already addressed, which he would have seen if he’d read a few more posts.
For every problem there is a simple solution that is neat, plausible and… wait, what? 