Re: thealexandrian, diplomacy, ressurecting old threads, etc

Mere moments before death, Justin Alexander
<justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hastily scrawled:

Malachias Invictus wrote:
"Justin Alexander" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:57c30a74-d36f-46e6-afcf-8e36f52b9caf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'll just note that you question was a "have you stopped beating your
wife?" piece of nonsense,

It may have been phrased in an adversarial way, but it certainly is not
nonsense.

Are you man enough to admit that you don't have any idea what logic
is?

You are quoting someone's Usenet posts, and that poster feels you
have stripped the context out and maligned him. A simple way to fix this is
to link to the original message/thread, so those interested can weigh the
matter for themselves. Are you willing to do this? If not, why not?

Tussock's nonsense is irrelevant to the point being made in the essay.
Nor is he being maligned by it, as his name appears nowhere on the
site.

Dude, it's the internet. You've heard of Google, right? Anyone
curious enough to google ["justin alexander" diplomacy] will discover
that the very first hit isn't to your website, but to an archive of
the "Diplomacy is AWESUM!!!11!i!!" thread, and from there it's a hop,
skip and a jump away from identifying Tussock as the poster you're
misquoting on your webpage.

If tussock wants to discuss Diplomacy with me, he can freely do so
either here or at my website. There's a comment option at the bottom
of the page he's quoting. He can even demonstrate that the quote is an
inaccurate representation of his position

It's an inaccurate *quote*. It doesn't matter if it represents his
position or not, because you're claiming he said something he didn't
say. You put the words up on the website in quote marks as though
someone you don't have the stones to identify (probably because you
know you're misquoting him) and now when you're called out on it you
hide behind the bullshit fact that you didn't properly attribute the
quote. Bad quoting practices are not a good defense for bad quoting
practices.

Be a man, Justin. Do the honorable thing and change the quote to be
accurate. Go another step towards moral high ground and fix the
attribution. Bask in the glory of knowing you're doing the right
thing and put a link to the Google archive of the original thread.
Just don't come over here and expect us to fail to see through your
double talking bullshit excuses.



PS, I don't give a shit about whether Diplomacy is broken or not,
that's not really relevant to this discussion.




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