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To: Ichneumon
Gull durn, boy! That whole series of exchanges with the "accusatory non-signer" was a very fine performance. All substantive, nothing abusive, and when it was over, the lurkers were sitting there stunned by the power of your responses. Like some show where, when it's over, the audience slowly files out of the theater, saying nothing, all looking exhausted by the immensity of what they've witnessed. If I wore a hat I'd be taking it off to you.
484 posted on 08/17/2003 5:17:32 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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I'm on some kind of vocabulary frolic. Now I've got two terms I can use in connection with the agreement:
1. "Virtuous non-signers" -- (the idea first appeared in post 399, but that's irrelevant):
There are several regulars in our threads who haven't bothered themselves with the agreement at all, who were absent from the drafting thread, who avoided all the quibbles and petty disputes, but who nevertheless conduct themselves as if they were complying posters. That is, their posts are always respectful, never provocative, never spamming, never involved in nit-picking irrelevant trivia, etc. We might consider them "virtuous non-signers."

2. And now, "accusatory non-signers" -- a term which nicely defines itself. But to flesh out the concept, let me quote from Ichneumon, who in response to one said (post 482): "If you can't handle people pointing out (or asking questions about) your own posting behavior, then perhaps you ought to stop making a career out of doing the same yourself. ... I'd much rather be discussing the actual topic (and I *have*, you'll notice) instead of countering overblown charges of 'incivility' every few posts."


485 posted on 08/17/2003 5:38:09 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: PatrickHenry; Ichneumon
That was indeed a heavy can of whoop-ass!
491 posted on 08/17/2003 8:22:41 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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