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I hadn't read this topic before, am I somehow excluded from commenting on a point that wasn't disputed in the fashion I felt it should have been? I felt, from my perspective, such an ignorant, and ironically, immature statement shouldn't go uncontested.
and then berate me because you
had finished reading the topic. I would caution against making assumptions that don't strengthen your argument, so that we don't waste time arguing the irrelevant.
It is not conducive to the healthy, civil debate that I do not think you are trying to achieve, and it is also very confusing from my standpoint. Not in an "aha, I'm winning this argument because I backed him into a corner" way, either. More of a "Hm, this person is completely unpredictable, and I have difficulty understanding what he is trying to tell me".
I find your posts emotional and aggressive because of your sarcasm, you are correct. You will probably find that most people will interpret such posts in a similar way.
Again, you are welcome to make any criticism you like, and you are also welcome to say things that make you come off as a sarcastic pot-stirrer. If you don't want to be considered as the latter, however, reading and responding to the most recent posts in a thread is a good place to start.
Your post wasn't really that analytical, either. Nor would it have been the first one to analyze my own even if it was. It might have been the first one where the poster had analyzed it thoroughly and then come to the conclusion that what I was saying was baseless and inflammatory, however. In this case, you appear to have misread my post as an attack on him for being too skilled in the English language, when I was actually sharing an opinion that his problems with 'King Ratbastard' stem from his perception that this individual is the embodiment of pure, unadulterated evil, coupled with the way he switches into a semi-Shakespearean 'avast, to a duel, yon cur!' style of writing when relating his antagonism towards this person.
And, seeing from what you ninja'd in while I was typing, you can completely understand how a comment spiked with humour or light sarcasm might be misinterpreted and turned around on oneself. This is a good thing to consider when attempting to critique somebody's comment.
The Bay12 forums are actually quite lenient about passionate arguments and debates. There are a variety of threads (one of which is called 'Atheists', where the scale of the debate is such that if you try to respond to old posts you will be in an even more uncomfortable position than we are now) that would have been locked ages ago on another forum. Ranting about the injustice of locking a thread is something for another forum.