Re: Trim quoting goes wrong
Originally posted by on 15/10/2025, 20:05:08 UTC
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If you ever have experience to what I am saying, can you describe how you feel when unnecessary single quote you from a nest post just to get your post less relevant in a different context?
It depends.When I'm quoted-without-context in a contentious topic, I sometimes get annoyed (it happened to me recently where someone quoted an already-short response of mine, but for some reason decided to keep just the first sentence and the last, and sliced out the middle without leaving any kind of marker).
When I'm quoted-without-context in a friendly topic, I don't mind (because then it's pretty clear that it was probably done only out of a desire to keep things concise).
In general though, I try not to assume that my intuitions about other people's intentions are correct, because I've had too many experiences where I've been shown to be wrong. IRL, whenever I've given someone the benefit of the doubt, and I've sat and spoken with them for a long time (without trying to confirm what I already suspect), I've almost always walked away from that experience realizing that in some way or another, I had them all wrong, and that I really should stop trusting my guesses about how other people think and what they're trying to do.
Like you said, it literally depends the nature of the ongoing discussion. So we also get to know which to just let go and which to counter at the necessity. They annoying is really daring to the nerves.
You also made a vital point thus regarded that individual based mental reasoning differs and can mislead the instinct wrongly.
If you also have to justify against others way of expression and it does not fall in line to how you think as per individual with your own views might get you unnecessarily paranoid out of sentiment.
There are also users who aim to gain visibility and intentionally tend to manipulate the contexts as conveyed in the quoted post.
Original archived Re: Trim quoting goes wrong
Scraped on 15/10/2025, 20:05:08 UTC
If you ever have experience to what I am saying, can you describe how you feel when unnecessary single quote you from a nest post just to get your post less relevant in a different context?
It depends.When I'm quoted-without-context in a contentious topic, I sometimes get annoyed (it happened to me recently where someone quoted an already-short response of mine, but for some reason decided to keep just the first sentence and the last, and sliced out the middle without leaving any kind of marker).
When I'm quoted-without-context in a friendly topic, I don't mind (because then it's pretty clear that it was probably done only out of a desire to keep things concise).
In general though, I try not to assume that my intuitions about other people's intentions are correct, because I've had too many experiences where I've been shown to be wrong. IRL, whenever I've given someone the benefit of the doubt, and I've sat and spoken with them for a long time (without trying to confirm what I already suspect), I've almost always walked away from that experience realizing that in some way or another, I had them all wrong, and that I really should stop trusting my guesses about how other people think and what they're trying to do.
Like you said, it literally depends the nature of the ongoing discussion. So we also get to know which to just let go and which to counter at the necessity. They annoying is really daring to the nerves.
You also made a vital point thus regarded that individual based mental reasoning differs and can mislead the instinct wrongly.
If you also have to justify against others way of expression and it does not fall in line to how you think as per individual with your own views might get you unnecessarily paranoid out of your wrong.
There are also users who aim to gain visibility and intentionally tend to manipulate the contexts as conveyed in the quoted post.