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From: "Peter Stewart" <>
Subject: Re: Parsing Stewart's Reply
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:38:32 GMT
References: <mailman.1221.1187954217.7287.gen-medieval@rootsweb.com>


"Richard Smyth at UNC-CH" <> wrote in message
news:...
> > You are falling into the mistake, unfortunately common enough here, of
> > reading my posts through the prism of your own pre-existing analysis,
> > and evident stereotyping of my characteristics and motives.
>
> You gave something that you represented as an answer to a question that I
> asked,
> namely, whether there is any actual evidence that aggressive comments to
> trolls
> causes them to go away. Now you tell me that I should not read your
> answer to
> my question through my own pre-existing analysis of my question.
>
> This discussion is not going to get anywhere.

Now you are being disingenuous about your own words as well as mine.

Your question to Elizabeth was:

"The question is which behavior is more effective in silencing trolls:
ignoring them or attacking them."

My answer was

"Hines was ABSENT from SGM for a blessedly long stretch after a similar
struggle from which he emerged fleeing with his tail between his legs."

You are now trying to misrepresnt my sentence about what happened AFTER a
struggle between two people to your reading about what happened BECAUSE of a
whacking by one person.

That is not logical integrity, or accurate comprehension of plain English.

Peter Stewart


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