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I agree.
The crux of the interweb's textual communication is the interpretation variance (error rate), which is about 80%, according to studies.
I don't have links to sources, sorry, but the result was so impressive to me, that it burned itself into my mind forever.
We will likely debate about things we didn't mean the way they were interpreted again, and again, and again...
Should not be a problem, unless either of us try to make it a problem. Sometimes I cannot even remember with whom I said what, but sometimes certain user names will stand out, and maybe even some common theme and repeated discussion with the same person about the same topic within an updated context....
Like you suggested there are a variety of ways to get disagreement, and sometimes tone is misunderstood and sometimes the back and forth could just devolve into differences in how things are said.....
The main thing remains for each of us to choose when we want to engage or not to our own choosing, but then others can possibly profit from that engagement, too, since we are batting these ideas around in a public thread... and every once in a while there might be a bit of a devolution that can be taken to PMs... and I sometimes make those choices about certain topics, but I have had other members choose to contact me as well about somethings that sometimes I might have considered to be o.k. to keep in public, but I will tend to give at least some benefit of the doubt for members to have differing senses of discretion than me.. and even though sometimes it might not be guaranteed that a topic won't be said in public, but clearly there are some topics that are just not necessarily brought up in public... even though it sometimes happens... and, yeah there are some members who I would rather NOT deal with at all in any private conversation, but if they initiate a private conversation then sometimes there remains a decision about how much to get into anything in private or just moving the interaction back to public.
I guess that I am engaging in a long way of saying that it is probably much more acceptable to engage in a lot of repetition in a public thread than it would be in a private conversation... so for example if we were going on and on and on about a topic in a private written conversation, there may be more obligation to go back and read what had previously been said..whereas in public threads I would think of the exchanging of ideas as much less formal and therefore more socially acceptable to contain quite a bit of repetition... ... .. and maybe even a few flippant jokes thrown in there, in consideration of the audience....
It reminds me of a PM interaction that I had recently, and before I typed one of my messages, I was about to thrown in a joke that I would have done if the interaction had been done in a public thread, and after I thought about that joke for a while, I reconsidered my tone, and I decided to leave out the joke because it was a more formal interaction and there was NO audience to possibly appreciate the possible hilariousness (from my point of view) of the matter beyond the one recipient.
By the way, the drone that recently killed that iranian general whose name i forgot, was launched from germany.
My mother language is german (sort of) but i'm not a german, not personally related to germany at all.
This might be one of those cases in which the joke should have been funny, whether you are german or not...... hahahahahaha
Roach might NOT appreciate such a joke, but I can hardly think of any member here who matters who gives two ratts' asses about how roach might feel about any possible topic.... unless we might be beating up upon him or making fun of him in some kind of important way, which seem to be fair topics... the more
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