And if you’d actually responded to my post by pointing that out, that would have been useful. Instead, you responded with a needlessly snarky, “Way to avoid answering the question,” as if I’d had an assignment and was evading responding to it. And frankly, if this was just an occasional incidence, I would take it for just an attempt at a bit of banter that didn’t land right, or just having a bad day and randomly lashing out, but the pattern of responding to my posts by incessantly trying to prove that I’m wrong or ill-informed is so persistent––to the extent that when I see you’ve responded to a post I made I can all but guarantee that it is some effort to ‘debunk’ me––that it clearly stems from some resentment or grievance. You even get so relentless at it that you’ll repeatedly do so in serial fashion (examples: here, and here, and more recently here) and often persist in doing so until another poster comes along and points out that you are in error.
I don’t have any problem with someone pointing out when I make an error or misstate sometime (as @dtilque did in that thread); I make mistakes or misinterpret things all the time and especially when I’m responding to a post and don’t take the time to do a throughout copyediting for clarity or forget to fact-check a statement that really should be verified. Often I’ll acknowledge a check with an affirmation (especially if it was a significant blunder), or make a clarifying statement if I thought it was a result of confusion. But your relentless pattern of trying to ‘correct’ me, even when my statement is obviously not wrong is indicative of some sense of injustice. I’m not expecting any kind of change of behavior or apology; I’m just curious as to what it is I did or wrote that got so stuck in your craw as to justify such an absurd, irritating campaign.
I don’t get paid by the word so I write at the level of detail I think is appropriate to answer to the question or address the issue. But then, you aren’t in any way obligated to read all or any of my posts, so it would seem like your best option would just be to ignore them entirely. Unless, of course, your intent is just to find something to bitch about.
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