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Grin!
Grin twice!
“Oh, yeah?”
XT:
Just say it that way. Sometimes you really are getting no where. When I notice that what I’m arguing about with someone and that it’s not really part of the thread topic but it seems it’s going to continue on for more than a post or two and that it’s detracting from the thread I usually say something along the lines of ‘this is a hijack though so we should really take this to a new thread’ (of course, I try and say this in such a way that I get the last word first :p).
Sometimes, though, you simply can’t come to any sort of agreement and you begin to repeat yourself (this is the general ‘you’, not the royal or specific ‘you’) with the person you are debating with and it becomes a bit pointless and repetitive. No one is going to change their mind, the discussion isn’t moving along at all since both sides are pretty entrenched and by and large other posters are either in joke mode or have moved on to talking about other things with other posters…at that point, enough is enough and it’s time to shut things down and move on. JMHO there but that’s what I try and do.
All that you say here is true and wise. The thing that gets me in trouble is a tin ear for sensing when. That, it seems, is just one of those things only an individual can know…and only individually.
Thank you, all, for good advice!
This whole thread was awesome. Can we sticky this, or a summary of its contents, somewhere?
I think new members, or members like the OP who are wondering when to quit, would benefit from having some guidelines.
There are times when threads are closed, or discussion might need to get back on track, and the mod could say, consult the sticky.
OP, thanks for the thread.
ddsun : thank you, and my thanks to all who posted.
