no one here has spent more time over the years entertaining jim and his stupidities... like i said, jim gets stuff "correct" at times, but there are also _many_ other times where he is off the wall...
It immediately ceases to be a meaningful debate, worthy of the time and effort that other volunteers put into volunteering at PG, and reading and responding to this venue, when you resort to insult words such as "stupidities" and personal attacks against me -- which are against me simply because the others here who disagree with you refuse to respond to you because they know that your only response is to go on personal attacks against them also and call them names. Therefore you actions result in a "shoutdown" where you "shoutdown" all other conversations on this forum -- and then complain that no dialog happens in this forum except in your own voice. What you call "correct" are simply those times when you think we agree, and what you call "stupid" are simply those times when you think we disagree. If you used the terms "agreement" and "disagreement" rather than "correct" and "stupid" you would have taken a first baby step towards a meaningful conversation, worthy of serious adults.
but, as everyone saw, a dialog with jim was far from interesting. it was usually a confusing mess, maddening in its inconsistency.
a good dialog is like an extended rally in tennis, where each of the
I assure you that it is "consistent" from my point of view, but, since your view and mine are similar in some areas and different in other areas -- and since you assume that anyone who doesn't agree with you 100%, 100% of the time is "stupid" -- thus your own absolutism leads to your own self-confusion about the nature of a conversation, something others here can understand and handle. players executes clean return of the ball to the other's court. What you are describing is not a dialog but rather a debate, with the goal at the end being some small group of "senior adults" declaring a winner. Well, there are no such adults in this forum, nor am I interested in who is declared the winner. I am interesting in creating good books -- not "perfect" books because I don't think ANY books at PG come remotely close to that standard. And I am interested in helping other people do the same thing -- it continues to shock me that PG continues to produce books which clearly "don't work" on many major platforms -- and that the "powers that be" [the senior adults? ;-] don't see that as being a problem! Part of creating a "good book" I believe is maintaining some, not necessarily all, of the nuances of uniqueness of a particular author and a particular publisher, and a major job of a transcriber is understanding these trade-offs -- and how those trade-offs affect the rendering and reading experience on a wide variety of platforms. I personally don't believe that the tools chosen to do these jobs make a heck of a lot of a difference -- rather it is the care and the knowledge of the person doing the job. When part of the job becomes tedious many experienced transcribers simply throw in a regex expression to fix that problem and move on. Again, feedbooks being a counterexample of what it looks like when books are reduced -- by throwing away the unique parts -- to a soulless sameness that if one were to refer back to the original text, one would seen that details of the intent of the author have been needlessly thrown away.
i was constantly baffled when having dialog with jim, because all of a sudden he'd make points for _my_ side of the debate, while giving the full impression he was arguing _against_ me!
Perhaps, again, someone can explain this strange phenomena to BB?
it was as if i was playing tennis against someone and suddenly i turned around and found him on _my_ side of the net, hitting the ball back to the empty space on the other side of the court!
It is indeed exactly like you are playing tennis -- it's just that NOBODY is on the other side of the net -- you are off in your own little world BB, playing your own little game, and keeping your own little score, and throwing up your own little hands in your own self-declared supposed little victory.
there's an old t.v. show called "three's company", where the landlord of an apartment thinks a male occupant, "jack", is _gay_, which is why it's acceptable he's living with two girls.
there is this one group which sees me as "a troll", and they are constantly accumulating more "proof" that that's true, because their "evidence" continues to show that i'm a "troll", thus their misimpression has become
Not sure, Now is BB trying to call me gay? And should I take that as an insult? For the record, I am not gay, but I would be happy to tackle gay lit if it was in interesting well-written book, and I've taken on a lot of chick-lit -- I have a wife and two daughters so chick-lit no longer scares me, and any overt "manliness" on my part has long since been ground into dust. truly self-sustaining, even though people who read all posts know that it ain't so. If you wanted to tune down the number of people who consider you a troll, consider dropping the explicit insults, such as calling people "stupid", and stop engaging in "debate" where you and only you think there are "winners and losers" and try instead to engage in meaningful dialog where you contribute meaningful tools and advice to the volunteers, and stop assuming that you and only you have the only answer to everything.
and now that i've stopped amusing him, jim knows that he has nothing left here anymore, so he's whining about that. he says i'm "not man enough" to respond to his sniveling...
That is not what I said, what I said is that if you are going to continue to insult me and my work on this forum then you should be "man enough" to at least engage in a two-way dialog where I can defend myself against your constant insults. And that you should hold yourself to the same standards you would hold others. But, then again, you never actually read that which I have written. ["Sniveling" -- introducing a new insult word]
tough luck, jim. you used up your last lifeline. so you die.
The "death" metaphors continuing to show how out-of-touch with reality BB has become. Would that this forum NOT be a matter of life or death for BB or for anyone, but rather a source of light, and of pleasure.