Hubi1857 wrote: ↑January 15th, 2020, 6:54 pm
You won't stop rebuking me until I die, am I right?
Not quite right, no.
If you appear to be making a good-faith effort to understand and follow the rules of the forum, but you make an honest mistake now and then, I'll continue to point out what you did wrong and suggest what you can do differently. For example, you provided a link to your other post, rather than copying the whole thing -- thank you!
However, if you continue to make off-topic posts that sound as if you're angry at everyone who challenges your bad behavior, then I'll ban you from the forums for increasing lengths of time: one week, one month, and then permanently.
Hubi1857 wrote: ↑January 16th, 2020, 8:30 am
BTW:
Moosey wrote: ↑January 15th, 2020, 5:51 pm
(Personally, I do not believe in any "alternative science")
Apparently you are unable to distinguish neither science from religion, nor biology from physics, nor rational from irrational numbers!
Please edit your post and remove the section I quoted. It's an unnecessary attack, and it doesn't really follow from the previous conversation. If you can't learn how to avoid starting and escalating pointless arguments, your posts are not welcome here.
If my suggested edit doesn't happen within a day or so, or if that sentence is replaced with other similar attacks, I'll start the one-week ban I mentioned above.
I could be wrong, of course, but I'm guessing that you believe that your "Apparently..." reply was
not an escalation, just a reflection of an attack you saw in Moosey's "Apparently you read this thread's title but not its first post?". Maybe your answer was intended to irritate Moosey exactly as much as Moosey's question irritated you.
It's never a good idea to post messages whose only purpose is to irritate someone. It would have been much better to answer Ian07's and Moosey's questions clearly and calmly, and move on. Now, if you think that it would also have been better if Moosey had not asked that question, with its implied attack on your reading comprehension abilities... well, I'd agree with that. But the question was a valid question -- it really does seem as if you might not have read or understood that first post -- and in any case, your reply is out of all proportion to the offense.
Another quote from the forum rules:
Nathaniel wrote: ↑March 18th, 2016, 8:52 pm
[*] This is an academic forum, not a chat or microblogging platform.
A good rule would be that if you've composed a message while you're angry or upset, it almost certainly
should not be posted here.