# Following Posters Around the MB

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**Created:** [January 4, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-posters-around-the-mb/742140 "2016-01-04T07:44:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/following-posters-around-the-mb/742140/11 "2016-01-04T11:12:43Z")

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I disagree. The relevance is only that he seems somewhat upset about something. And the implication being drawn by quoting it out of context creates an impression he said something he didn’t.

Here’s the actual full quote:

> [@Fuck you, Rowan County (KY) Clerk Kim Davis](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-rowan-county-ky-clerk-kim-davis/727757/67):
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> Maybe so.
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> When I posted, there were three RO threads by the same OP in the top ten on the BBQ Pit.
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> It’s probably just me, but why bother getting outraged about things that you have no control over, and have nothing to do with you?

He was referring to the fact that a single poster had started multiple currently ongoing Pit threads. So, in context, he was referring to the fact that he thought they were all not anything worthy of being upset about.

Furthermore, the actual quote also says “things that don’t affect you.” The situations in question clearly affected him. The first link is about how people post in IMHO. He posts in IMHO, so what happens in that forum affects him. In the second, he’s questioning the veracity of a poster–who posts on the same message board as him. And the third one is a criticism of the board in general, which again affects him.

It’s not being used to actually contradict anything. It’s being used because the poster in question is trying to get under that person’s skin. And there’s no love lost between me and the OP. I do not think his posts add to this board in any way, and would not miss them if they were gone. But that’s not what this is about. This is about a poster shoehorning in an out of context quote every time it could tangentially be related.

I have experience with people taking what I say out of context for the purpose of ridicule, or doing the same with something I said in the past that sounded stupid and ignoring my later clarifications. It fucking sucks.

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