Discuss the issues but do not make it personal. Reading other posters' minds and attributing motives is making it personal.
>> Alex Murphy thinks it's funny to paste satire as if it were fact, as sort of a DAILY April Fool's joke. <<
I did mean to complain about the practice, and I did not mean to talk about others behind their backs, so I pinged Alex Murphy. But I don't see where the personal attack is. I don't mean to be argurmentative; I just mean to ask, "what'd I do wrong?"
Am I wrong to presume Alex Murphy does this because he thinks it's funny? Am i wrong to characterize it as an April Fools Joke?
Frankly, I DO resent the fact that Alex Murphy has refused repeated requests to simply flag the fact that the statements within the article he posts are satire. I don't LIKE wasting my time reading through an article until I come across something which is too preposterous to be real, especially because one reason people post articles is to point out how preposterous true life is! So now I have to look at every article before I read it to make sure it isn't an Alex Murphy joke.
Every post Alex Murphy makes ends up making FReepers look publicly stupid, and I write this as someone who has NOT been tricked into commenting on his fiction as if it were fact. And I'd dare say that if I were an editor or forum moderator, I would certainly NOT want my readers to be wondering whether something they had just read was real or satire.
I do see now where the satire flag has been added and I do appreciate it. Thank you RM, and, if you gave the nod for it to be done, thank you Alex.