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Re: 2 x Armada Flagship = Armada Warship
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lugnet.admin.terms
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Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:56:24 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.terms, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.admin.terms, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > To Eric: One thing I gleaned from your replies to Jude (and I agree with you,
> > thrash this out, it's good to discuss, even if you happen to be wrong about
> > the
> > issue itself :-) ) is that the order that stuff was posted was part of the
> > problem?
> >
> > Had it been posted in the other order (to pirates first, then to
> > marketplace) it would have been OK?
> >
> > That seems unsupportable. The order posted and the order read have only a • weak
> > correlation.
>
> Ah... hmmm.
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> Anyway. The order certainly set off a flag in my head, and I can honestly say
> done the other way 'round I probably wouldn't have even noticed it.
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> However, I think the correlation between the order posted and the order read:
> A) Is pretty strong (a lot of people read Lugnet every day, and even if they
> don't, most of the people I know read threaded discussion groups in
> chronological order)
but these posts were to different groups. I dunno about you, but my MO is to
start reading a group that interests me from where I left off, till I reach the
end, then dip into another one. Hence, the order posted, if fairly close
together, has zippo to do with the order I read them, since the order I select
groups to read them is based on whim.
> and b) is a straw man, because the order people read the
> posts in has *absolutely* nothing to with the intention behind those posts.
I think you mean red herring, as you are asserting it is a false clue, rather
than a weakly constructed trial argument that I myself intended to knock down.
You yourself said that "had you seen them in the other order" you might not
have thought as much. You're brighter than most at examining the exact time of
posting, but I've just demonstrated that I, at least, don't really read stuff
in the order posted. I bet lots of other people don't. So it's not a straw man.
Or a red herring either.
You can't infer intention behind why posts were made from what order they were
posted in anyway. I replied to Frank's post before I did yours, what does that
tell you about my intent? :-)
++Lar
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| (...) Ah... hmmm. First, as I tried to hint to you earlier, I don't really think that this post was necessarily nothing but a blatant flog. I did think it raised an interesting point to debate, though, because it would be easy to flog in this manner (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.terms)
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