cutting up a post

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Mon Oct 26 23:30:08 GMT 2009


On Sun, October 25, 2009 17:12, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>     Been reading the fcc Internet thread as it has evolved and have
> noticed a trend.   A person goes to the trouble to write a half page
> post that is interdependent on ever statement and line in its make up to
> make a point.   Then someone else chops it into individual lines or
> statement and writes a scathing comment on each part of it.  This is
> only a method to discredit the writer.   It is not a comment on the
> original post but instead a misleading,  attack that adds nothing of
> substance  to the argument.  Where is the thinking and adding of
> thoughts to a subject, where are the ideas. I find this a laziness on
> the part of the chopper and commenter.   A person with integrity ,it
> seems to me might put on their thinking cap and post their opinion so
> that  all may read both opinions  and make a decision  as to what they
> consider as legitimate.
>      You guys do realize that when a person writes something it is
> automaticly copyrighted and no one has a right to change it.  They do
> have a right to comment on it.  This of course is irrelevant in the case
> of what we are writeing here it is worthless so who would take this to a
> court.
>     It may be that by writing here we have agreed that our copyrighted
> work may be published here under creative commons I don't know I have
> not read what we agree to when posting. It would seem common curtisy
> dictates that you not destroy another's work in order to discredit
> him.   This practice promote argument not discourse.
>                                                          Doug
>

You give too much importance to yourself and your ramblings.
Lighten up for fraks sake, this is the internet. This is the way it works.
Love it or endure it. Interleaved replies are a freedom of expression.




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