Re: The Standard Advice




Steve Wynard wrote:

>Please take your own advice and post items which are on topic.

Please quote the part where I advised you to stay on-topic.
I happen to like on-topic posts, but did not, by design, mention
that fact in the post you replied to.

You appear to be unable to parse and comprehend the advice that
has been given to you. Nowhere in the Standard Advice is there
any mention of being on-topic or off-topic. There are newsgroups
where off-topic posts are welcome and others where they aren't,
and the Standard Advice was written to apply to all newsgroups.

What the Standard Advice actually says (a point that you missed)
is "articles that you dislike." It is up to you to decide what
you like and don't like. If you dislike off-topic posts, don't
reply to off-topic posts. If you dislike posts about DTVs or
emulators and only like posts about old iron, don't reply to posts
about DTVs or emulators. If you dislike posts about old iron and
only like posts about DTVs and emulators, don't reply to posts about
old iron.

What you just did, havng failed to read and understand the Standard
Advice, was to "respond to articles that you dislike and complain
about articles that you dislike." - something you were advised not to
do.

I, on the other hand, rather enjoy attempting to educate folks who
have trouble seperating the concepts of "off-topic" and "that which
I dislike". so I am following the Standard Advice by responding to
you in order to get more of your highly entertaining replies back.

>In order to make this post on topic...

Tacking on a paragraph at the end does not cause an off-topic post
to become an on-topic post. Try converting your arguments to
Commodore BASIC. It works for Payton... :)

THE STANDARD ADVICE:

There is a way to influence what gets discussed in a newsgroup that
works well, and another way that has never worked no matter how many
people have tried it.

What works: Post articles on the topic you wish to see discussed
and participate in the resulting discussion. Use killfiles and
filters so that you don't see the articles that you dislike.
If you don't know how to use a killfile, use good old fashioned
discipline and don't read the articles that you dislike. Never,
ever respond to articles that you dislike.

What doesn't work: Respond to articles that you dislike, complain
about articles that you dislike, complain about posters that you
dislike, complain about how terrible everyone else is for not posting
what you want them to post. Talk about how to respond to articles
that you dislike. Make the articles that you dislike the center of
attention, the main topic of discussion, and a personal crusade.

-Guy Macon


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