Drlee wrote:I like to shoot them before they can get to their horse.
ON EDIT: Thoughtful replies are the ones I like the most but there is something really satisfying about gunning someone down, blowing the smoke out of your barrel and heading for TLTE.
This may be temporarily satisfying to the person
blowing the other person's head off, but it doesn't add much to the overall argument usually. It's like proving that "you are faster than he is," without necessarily adding to the truth of any particular information that has been provided in the thread.
Blackjack21 uses a "drive-by quoting" style that attempts to "respond" to multiple other posters in one sweep. The problem I have with this is exactly that he doesn't contribute much to the general validity of the direction of the thread. It's just little gripes and polemics he is able to find in the wording of their posts.
The problem with this is that most of these aren't worth responding to as this will only spam up the thread with unnecessary polemics that have nothing to do with the subject of the thread.
Better to really READ what other people have written to try to understand their logic. And this takes time and should provoke delays before responding so that you can contemplate.