But what you seem to missing is this is exactly the kind of response that has driven people to resort to the sniping, you have provided nothing additional of substance to continue the discussion. My post was primarily about my observations regarding Greenleaf and the fact that the methods that he used to support his opinion do not seem to conform to current legal opinion and was thus irrelevant to the OP. You completely ignored the substantive portion of the post. Instead you use it as a vehicle to lash out at your perceived attackers.
Please help me understand what you mean by ‘effective post’
It is complete and provides substantive information that is difficult to rebut or counter.
If this is what you mean, I have rebutted your post in regard to Greenleaf’s relevance and it is up to you to now find fault with my argument. I am waiting.
It gathers a large number of responses many of then strongly worded and angry.
If this is what you mean then this is crossing the line into troll territory. In this case you would probably deserve what you get.
I recognize that I have presented the extreme ends of the spectrum. What do you consider to be the measure of an effective post?
Ya know, when I forst got here, there was a poster in R&P named Iacchus. He was a Swedenborgian, kinda, who posted some amazing bullpuckey. No one in a thread would take his points seriously, or engage him straight on. I figured that I would.
A wiser and more experienced poster, who's name sound quite a bit like "Nercutio", tryed to advise me that I was butting up against a brick wall of ignorance and that my tactic had been tried time and time again. But I wouldn't listen, and persisted. Thinking, hoping beyond all evidence that if I said some right phrase, some little morsel of wisdom would seep into the skull o' Iacchus and he'd see the light and stop being a moron.
I lost it very shortly thereafter. I can't find the post now, but I 'sploded. I realized then that I couldn't take the rambling diatribes of a nameless, faceless poster on the intertubes all that seriously. If they don't want to engage in honest debate, mockery is all I have for them now. We don't have to agree, but an honest consideration of the posts is necessary.
So, why am I writing this to you, Waterman? I'm passing on the advice, here five years later, that I got from that wise and wooly poster. Don't let him get to you. There are 10,000+ posts in this thread, none of them have advanced the stated purpose of the OP. DOC is not an honest poster, he will not give your posts, no matter how carefully constructed, their just due. He'll continue posting his drivel until the cows come home to roost*. If you care to "play for the lurkers", then fine, but do not expect any honesty from this one, the Force is weak in him.
*Yes, I know damned well that cows don't roost, but I just like that mental image of an 800 lB cow, sitting gracefully on a fence post, loudly mooing in the sunrise. Moo-moo-moo-moo-MOO!
