# Poster mischaracterizing your posts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 21, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-mischaracterizing-your-posts/664130 "2013-07-21T19:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-mischaracterizing-your-posts/664130/7 "2013-07-21T22:35:21Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > If posters had to accurately represent every other posters’ posts, this board would shut down tomorrow. > > So would the Internet. Probably true. But I had no idea that it could be one person’s entire MO throughout their whole posting history. > [@John\_Mace](#): > > Did you report this to a mod and they didn’t react? > > I had a hard time figuring out what the issue was by going back to that thread. It started when you reposted your quote, saying you bolded the key part, but none of it was bolded. No I didn’t report it. I’d looked through the rules again and only saw what had previously been said; that it was a no no to change a poster’s words in the quote box. Which is why I asked here. It seemed related to that, but I wasn’t sure. And I’d tried to bold that. I still sometimes screw up when I’m trying to code stuff from my phone. The gist was though that any time someone disagreed with parts of her argument, she would come back and give their motives a negative twist by paraphrasing their viewpoint to a strawman. The post that she did it to me is 151. > [@Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/151): > > You call it discrimination, I’d call protecting already sick kids from getting sicker while protecting the organization from liability. Not sure why you think “Hell, let 'em try, if they have a stroke, oh well, at least they were included” is a more prudent decision than “We’ll let them in when they lose a bit of weight”, but you’ve made your point. Nowhere did I even remotely imply any of the things that she has put in quotes. Also, as I mentioned, the posts from other members taking her to task were over the same exact issue. I hope that at least that was clearer. ETA: I never called it discrimination either, as just another example. I said other people see it as that, but when confronted, all the facts are just ignored. Like I’m sure she’ll ignore the last two posters too and keep up strawmanning the hell out of every thread she participates in. > [@TriPolar](#): > > Okay? I thought it was required. Ha. I didn’t get the memo. Maybe I’d stepped away for coffee then? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poster-mischaracterizing-your-posts/664130)._