If you prove that you believe in "do not post to or about" deals by stopping, NOW, from ANY posting to or about me, or posting about anything I'm posting about, and keep it up for six months without a single respite, then at the end of that time, you having shown the way, I will agree to the same deal vis-a-vis Poet. And no indirect posting through proxies. Total, absolute separation.
Of course you put in "or posting about anything I'm posting about" into this so it makes no sense.
How about making me that offer but making it that I can post on a topic under general discussion, taking up points made by others or making points of my own without any reference to you or your posts, and no third-party, indirect engagement, and no quoting or paraphrasing of you.
Simple. No to, no about, no engagement at all.
Topic yes, engagement, direct or indirect, no.
The reason I say topic yes, is that it works that way standardly on SI, and there's no reason for it not to work that way with us.
Okay? Give me the offer with that modification? After all, no one ever proposed that you couldn't post on, say, capital punishment, if Poet had posted on it. They just proposed that you restrict your responses to non-Poet-connected posts, not alluding to her or her posts. |
