Also, whilst @Wesley_Clark’s post was similar, it was different in three ways:
It was later in the timeline of the thread.
Although it’s a miscorrection of the thread title, it doesn’t quote me, so I didn’t get pinged.
Subjectively, it was quite a lot more obviously a joke.
This. Exactly. I’m not kidding when I say I literally had forgotten the exact nature of Peter’s joke.
No, because time elapsed between:
A. the point where it was not clear you were joking, and:
B. the point where it was made clear that you were joking. Some time after this, I forgot all about your joke and described a different incident where someone had earnestly miscorrected me. This happened last week in YouTube.
There is no contradiction.
So, mod here. This is the first indication to me that there was another post of that general nature. I haven’t been avidly reading the thread.
I’m not super inclined to moderate it.
- it’s much more obvious it’s meant as a joke
- no one reported it
- the OP implied (in this thread) that it didn’t especially bother him.
And as for @Mangetout 's post, i don’t even see the connection.
Yes, it was. It happened AFTER I had been modded. Does that not make it worse.
Quite a coincidence that it should happen in two different forums within a week.
Or, as a great man put it: https://youtu.be/4-E-o0ajGAo/#2
Link? If you don’t want to reveal your youtube ID, send it to puzzlegal, who will confirm that this coincidence happened without revealing your identity.
Assuming, arguendo, that the coincidence is real, is it possible that you were offended more by the youtube comment than my post? I mean, maybe my post on its own would have been okay, but you were annoyed by the earlier post, and carried your annoyance over to me. Is that a possibility?
Bit of both. Maybe 60/40 with a wish to participate in the thread the more important of the two.
Why are you arguing against it? Because you want to win? Comme ci comme ça.
Not really. It happens a lot - incessantly - on many topics and in various forms, on a daily basis. That’s what the thread was about.
Not sure this is the appropriate forum for calling me a liar, even obliquely.
Not possible. I made the mistake of engaging with the person incorrecting me and they got aggressive and I banned them; the comment is no longer visible to anyone except the person who posted it.
Yes, I arrived in the thread already annoyed (or at least suffering from annoyance-fatigue). I even said so. That is part of what made your joke land badly (that and the fact I wasn’t sure it even was a joke).
It’s not a coincidence, he literally started the thread because it had happened to him, and it annoyed him. And your questioning whether that’s real is as bizarre as questioning the story of a poster who says they were cut off in traffic by an obnoxious driver. This kind of thing is ubiquitous in YouTube comments. I follow a number of YouTubers, and i think every one who has posted about the process of being a YouTuber has complained about this kind of obnoxious comment. For instance, a guy who posts very professionally edited and completely non-controversial cooking videos says he has folders of comments he can’t read because they are so hurtful.
I used to do that too. I also used to have a three strikes system where I wouldn’t ban people on the first incident, however this meant keeping a sizeable indexed collection of screenshots, and revisiting them every time someone came back for another go.
About a year ago, I decided that wasn’t fun and I deleted them all and revised my comment handling criteria - it’s now just asking myself if I want to have further conversation with the commentor and making a decision based on that.
I complain a lot about the bad things in the comments - I’ve done that multiple times here on this board and my friends and family also suffer my idiot comment stories.
Bad comments are really a tiny proportion of the total, but it’s disproportionately noticeable, like having a thorn in your finger - it’s so small you can’t even measure it, but it occupies your whole attention.
FWIW at this point: no, I did not think @Mangetout was talking about you.
Thank you. I think it was fairly clear what you meant, since you went on to elaborate:
I’m curious. ISWYDT is usually a response to someone’s joke. What joke did you think he told? Just what did he do there?
“You must not start a sentence with a conjunction!”
And why not, exactly? Or is there actually a rule?
Mangetout was responding to pair of posts I had made in which I argued that correcting other people was a behaivour born of a desire to divide the world into good clever people who know teh rules and bad ignorant people who don’t - and to place the corrector on the right side fo that line.
In support of this argument, I pointed out that many of these grammatical rules have no basis in how the English language actually works but are very often edicts handed down by authority with very little rationale.
Agreeing with this thesis that much of these corrections are due to people following an imaginary rule, Mangetout constructed a mini dialogue in whch the first person forcefully quoted the rule “You must not start a sentence with a conjunction!” before the second person replied to it with two perfectly well formed sentences that used the device of starting with prepositions in order to a) gain rhetorical force and b) in the immediate context of being apparent responses to a declaration of the rule demonstrate the weakness of the rule, which, had it been followed, would have prevented such an effective response.
My ISWYDT meant that I had noted Mangetout’s use of deliberately breaking the rule to demonstrate its weakness, not that Mangetout had referenced the rule which you had jokingly corrected him on earlier.
Okay, I missed that.
Not that it probably counts for much, but I am sorry that my reporting of your post got you a thread ban and played out this way. I reacted to annoyance in that moment; a cooler head would have been better.