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'fun', 'eted', and 'gerel'
Posted by Prometheus on 2011-November-19 17:59:58, SaturdayIn reply to Yet another ****house post... posted by the anatomical deadspace on 2011-November-18 20:35:33, Friday
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Those, in order, were the missing letters, right? Or was the last one supposed to be "dogma"? I think the idea was to make a big stink because he's upset that a recent post of his got cogged. He whined about it on MBC in a post titled "I'm confused again" (yeah, I dare say he is!). He was bellyaching because he committed a couple of rule 6 violations and the entire paragraphs committing the violations were axed. He thinks that only a few words or phrases should have been removed. As usual, he doesn't have a valid point. He seems to want the edits of his rule violations to be "surgical" so that his meaning would still be clear; he doesn't understand that that would miss the entire point. In the above harangue, he appears to be trying to argue that if you just censor certain words, then it shouldn't matter that the meaning is clear as long as there's a hypothetical possibility that the missing parts could be something other than what they obviously were. Does that mean that he shouldn't consider your post an insult, because your asterisks could be replaced to make "funhouse", "bulleted", and "doggerel"? He JUST DOESN'T GET that the very reason why he wants just a few words blotted out is the reason why that's not a viable option. Another thing he JUST DOESN'T GET is that what he's saying is especially invalid in reference to a cog edit. The very fact that a post was cogged implies that there was a rule violation. Suppose a sentence, after being cogged, reads "My YF took off his [deleted], exposing [deleted], and I proceeded to gently stroke his [deleted], as he looked down at his [deleted] with a contented smile on his face." Martir's bogus argument is that that's sufficient, because the original sentence could have been "My YF took off his hat, exposing the top of his head, and I proceeded to gently stroke his hair, as he looked down at his shoes with a contented smile on his face." Well, no, it couldn't have been, because if that were what it said, it wouldn't have been cogged! Deleting the whole thing gives no hint about what was said, other than that in the cog's judgment it was against the rules. The "surgical" edit leaves the original meaning very clear - that's the entire reason why mwac wants the edit to be "surgical", and the reason why it would be pointless to do it that way. Your mind fills in the blanks, yeah right.In fact, he's right about that - and it defeats his whole argument. Your mind - that part of you that thinks and understands (or should, if you bother to use it) - fills in the blanks, not a random word generator. .jpg) |
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