w00t w00t booyah

I was, actually, responding to comments that other people had made here regarding the (unrelated, but relevant) issue of the use of cut tags and what they mean, and whether requesting their use is appropriate or not.

I made no demands of any sort (in fact, as I mentioned, I haven't heard anybody make any demands). I, in fact, did not say anything directly to kyburg at all. I was addressing other people who had posted comments, which happened to be attached to one of her posts.

I did not "gloss over the entire thing in order to post a comment". In fact, upon seeing the size of the article, my first reaction was to look at the comments to see whether other people had brought up the suggestion of a cut tag because, as I mentioned before, I had thought it a suggestion that kyburg might be interested in hearing given what I know of her general consideration for other people. I then found a long discussion on the topic including some statements which I considered worthy of additional commentary.

I believe given the large amount of discussion on the subject and multiple posts made with contrary arguments that my contribution to the discussion was relevant and appropriate, you may disagree, which is your prerogative, but in that case fanning the flames with a (reasonably inflammatory) response doesn't seem like the most responsible course of action to me.

Unfortunately, your response seems to indicate that you've completely missed the point I was trying to make, which is that, in my opinion, we really should all just drop the issue, try to be nicer and more considerate to each other, and not be so caught up in ourselves and perceived slights to some god-given right to ignore and aggravate the others around us.

In any case, I've said my fill, this conversation seems to be degenerating rapidly, and I suspect there is very little likelihood of swaying your opinions in any case, so I will likely not post anything more in this thread. Please do not take anything I've said here as a personal attack, demand, rant, or anything else on you or anybody else here, as that was never my intention.

I just wish I knew why good people couldn't be a little nicer to each other once in a while, that's all..