…I do not understand this guidance at all. I don’t think I quoted them out of context. The post was immediately above mine so the context was there. The rest of the response didn’t address either of my questions, so I snipped the bits out that didn’t answer my questions and quoted the bit that did.
How does this nearly rise to a warning?
Bear, not a mod myself of course, but I think it’s because you snipped away the large portion of bump’s comment in which he explained why the marginalized people have no excuse for being unvaccinated (the vaccine’s totally free, and as accessible as can be), and quoted only his “I don’t give a shit about them” part, thus making it sound as if he were much more unreasonably callous towards them than he is. The portion you omitted was the part that made his last sentence (the one you quoted) reasonable. By removing it, he now sounds unreasonable.
…the two questions I asked were:
and
That marginalised people may (or may not) have an excuse didn’t answer my first question. The only response that was relevant to my question was the part that I quoted.
Velocity pretty much covers it. Not allowed and has never been allowed and in bad form anywhere.
Show that you snipped a quote in the future using ellipses or say as much. ETA: if you have changed the meaning or removed context.
You don’t get to use only the part of someone else’s post you want to.
Just to explain it another way. What you did is extremely misleading and putting a different meaning to what another poster said.
…so hold on a second. Does this mean from now o we have to quote the entire post, even if it isn’t relevant?
So if I decide to do this:
And not quote the first part of what you said, I’m breaking the rules?
Do I have to do this instead?
I did this with every post in that thread. I’ve done that with almost every post where I’ve quoted someone. Everyone does this. People have been pitted because they over-quote in posts. I’ve adopted this practice because people complain when you quote too much stuff.
Can you clarify?
I don’t think I did though? What do you think Bump meant?
That is not my understanding of how it works. As in this post, you only quote the parts that are relevant to your response.
Now you’re being difficult. No one said you need to quote the entire post. If the context isn’t lost no problem. If you snip in a way that changes the meaning of what someone said, you better indicate as such with at least …
If you snip a post show the ellipses where the cuts were made. This has been a long standing rule.
Or
I snipped out the rest of the post
We are not getting into what Bump ,meant. I already checked with 2 others mods. We all feel you changed his meaning.
Sorry, I fixed my post above.
What the hell? It was immediately below the quoted post, the context was right there, and didn’t change the meaning of anything in any case. Highlighting the relevance of that sentence in relation to BB’s question doesn’t change the meaning of that sentence.
Bad modding (and 3 of you agreeing on it doesn’t change that)
Thanks. That makes good sense.
…I’m not trying to be difficult here. But if you feel that I changed the meaning then the meaning of his post is relevant. I don’t think I changed the meaning at all. You seem to be ignoring additional context: which was the original questions that I asked Bump.
Here is the actual rule:
…so what part of that rule did I break?
And? What part of that rule did he break?
You failed to show that you snipped. Use the ellipses next time and no more problems.
Oh, this is bullshit. You’re making up some shit post hoc that has never been applied in this way, to justify a bullshit ruling.
That’s never been what “snipping” is on this board, and you know it.
And might I suggest you disable the quote-highlight function? Since that’s all it does.
…I’m really at a loss for words here.
Is this rule going to be applied consistently to all posters from now on?
The context changed, show that you snipped.
It has been the rule. I didn’t make it up.
Also MrDibble please stop being abusive. I’m flagging your post for review.
…context is subjective. I don’t think I changed the context at all.
If you think I did, then explain how I did it.
How? It was the first reply, and he quoted the sentence verbatim.
What “change of context” are you talking about?
No, it has never been used like that. He didn’t edit anything, or quote only part of a sentence.