Am I the only one that always gets a chuckle out of these disclaimers? The 'obvious reasons' always seem to boil down to a) don't want to go through the karmic trauma of being modded down or b) persecution complex.
Yep, that's a quote, which I figured would be obvious since it was in GP's post;) It does correctly show up as a quote now, but earlier I did see it wasn't for some reason. Odd.
Something was messed up with the formatting, it didn't look like a quote (and I had my threshold set sufficiently high that I didn't see the original AC comment).
I suspect it was the stylesheet used by idle; when I view your post using the regular Slashdot stylesheet, it looks fine and it's obvious you're quoting something in that statement. In the future, I'll either avoid idle entirely, or just remove 'idle' from the URL (that seems to fix the problem). Guess I should also take more than four seconds to t
Ah, yep - gone back and checked, and noticed the same think with the idle stylesheet. And taking more than four seconds to think of a smart-ass comment/is/ too much work - it can interrupt the flow and ruin the 'zing' factor...
laugh...
He was obviously attempting to quote the original post, not attempt to disclaim that he was posting AC.
Wow...
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
clever but highly unmotivated trick.
-- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
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Are you going to come out in support of something? Have you come out recently?
You say more than you think. I would rather you think before you engage your keyboard.
Posted AC for obvious reasons.
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Posted AC for obvious reasons.
Am I the only one that always gets a chuckle out of these disclaimers? The 'obvious reasons' always seem to boil down to a) don't want to go through the karmic trauma of being modded down or b) persecution complex.
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by thePowerOfGrayskull (905905) on Wed Aug 20, '08 12:20 PM (#24677003) Homepage
Posted AC for obvious reasons.
This is why the preview button exists, kids.
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Something was messed up with the formatting, it didn't look like a quote (and I had my threshold set sufficiently high that I didn't see the original AC comment).
I suspect it was the stylesheet used by idle; when I view your post using the regular Slashdot stylesheet, it looks fine and it's obvious you're quoting something in that statement. In the future, I'll either avoid idle entirely, or just remove 'idle' from the URL (that seems to fix the problem). Guess I should also take more than four seconds to t
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thePowerOfGrayskull was talking about the person he replied to, who indeed posted as AC and invoked the disclaimer.
Go to the message and click the "Parent" button at the bottom of it, and you'll see.
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