Time and again I find it strange that one can hold up a shoe with no name on it, only to witness people rushing to defensively declare it a perfect fit. ;-)

Permit me to quote a section of my own post (#104 in this thread):

*We've also had some other vague accusations made here....without actually naming any names.

It's done that way in order to protect the innocent -- of course.

Vague-hint types of accusations also provide a handy out for the accusers -- if they are called on it, then there's always plausible deniability.

"Hey, who said that I was talking about you.......? Feeling guilty, are you? You must be guilty."

Or so I suspect that the reasoning goes.*

So, I suppose that I must be guilty. After all, I deigned to respond to the charge. And that action always proves guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

While, as you're aware, many take issue with your posting habits, I've long been aware that calling attention to them only exacerbates the excesses, so you can trust that I was thinking of self-moderation as a virtue in general, not as a personal slight or as a stealth criticism

For individuals that regularly haunt locales like the Chicken Coop to be speaking of "self-moderation as a virtue" strikes me as quite funny.

In addition to which -- this red herring issue of "posting habits" never seems to be brought up when the repeat posters in question are individuals with whom we happen to agree on a topic.

When that's the case, then we cheer them on towards ever-higher efforts.

I see complaints about posting habits as a back-door method of attempting to discredit someone without actually answering the substance of the things that they are saying.

A neat little side-step manuver.

Handy, when one has no real responses on tap.

BTW -- as I indicated in my response to Berkley, I've gotten both positive and negative feedback in regards to my posts.

Which tends to be the norm in most areas of life.

my only ongoing issue is that people seem to confuse us and misattribute comments to me that were actually made by you, evidently because of the "x" thing, which I try to have fun with

People confuse you with me?

Hmmmmmmm.

Well, we've all got our ideas concerning our fellow forumites.

Ideas rattling around........

BTW - how do you handle such flattery?

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