<<<I never posted excerpts (with the exception of an odd quote), but summaries of my reading. I never stopped posting them on other threads. I never "resumed" posting them on Feelies, because I had been either copying or linking all along. Three factual strikes...>>>
So your speechlessness, Neo, was because you had posted "summaries" instead of "excerpts"? That may or may not be rather a distinction without a difference....
Yes, you had posted links, I recall that. I thought you had taken the postings themselves to another thread for the reason I gave. Was that an inaccurate impression on my part?
My "three factual strikeouts," according to this post of yours, that you present as proof "cherry picking" is unfair, are:
~You posted your own personally-selected summaries of Morris's book instead of simply excerpting it.
~the word "resumption" was inaccurate because while you had earlier not posted the Reagan material on feelies, in consideration for what had happened here, you had continued to post links here to the summaries you were posting on another thread or other threads.
~you never stopped posting them on other threads, you only started posting them on feelies.
Those facts are noted, but they appear to be quite peripheral to the central question of why "cherry picking" seemed to you, apparently, a shocking characterization of your postings.
I did tell you frankly that I hadn't read them, having left this place. So you have the opportunity to simply inform me that your postings were "balanced summaries" (not "excerpts," I understand that now), of much the sort I myself would have presented, had I chosen to join you in this project instead of leaving the field to your summaries.
If that is the case, and I could not have "cherry picked" myself by posting summaries of my own formulation, then of course my "cherry picking" phrase was inaccurate.
Is that what you are telling me? That if I had gone to buy the Morris book and read your summaries, and the book, along with you, I would not have felt tempted to "cherry pick" rather differently that you did?
As I said in my post, If I misunderstood, and that is not a description of what you did, and you were picking from the book a balance of positive and negative material, both of which exist in abundance in it, then "cherry-picking" was certainly a wrong term.
I said that and meant it. Were your summaries (not "excerpts") neutral?
<<<I will consider whether I care to address the other questions later....>>>
Oh, dear. This is a foreshadowing of, I am afraid, the vague response, or the taking up of peripheral matters before those central to my post were responded to that I was trying to avoid receiving when I wrote:
Each of my questions here is sincerely asked. I would be very interested to know:
~why the term "cherry picking" for what you did is unfair.
~whether you posted, equally, material supporting my position, too.
~what the term "this is pretty much the end" means, at this late date.
~what inaccurate characterization of mine made you speechless and why.
Neo, please don't reply to these questions with a wave of the hand, but rather with specificity. I would appreciate that!
But this summary-list, and my repetitiveness, have succeeded only in eliciting that you posted personal summaries and not quotes, that you continued posting those summaries on other threads, and that the word "resumed" was unfair because you had posted here links to your summaries posted on other threads.
Not meaning to beat a recalcitrant horse, but Neo, can you tell me whether your summaries are what you think mine would have been, had I chosen to do as you did? Because if you think they are, then it clears up the mystery for me of why you think "cherry picking" is unfair, and you gave no clue to that, except the implication that perhaps you DO think your summaries and mine would be identical, in the post to which I am now responding.
I will leave the determination up to you. Say that yes, your summaries here were as mine would have, in your opinion, and I will recognize the inappropriateness of the term "cherry picking," thank you for your objectivity in your summaries, and apologize. |
