--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_couscous_ff <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> > wrote: > > > That may be a story you are comfortable with, as you trot it out > > > very selectively. > > > > Not very selective. But you do answer questions, or respond to > > observatons, at times. More so than others. Other times, you simply > > divert and trash the observer, or ignore the quesions. Its maybe > > 50/50 with you. With others it may be more 90/10, 90% divert and > > trash. > > Are all questions eqally deserving of/amenable to > "clear and cogent resposnes"?
I understand your point. Not all posts deserve a response. Some discussion get"insane" and insanely off the original point. And I feel there is no need to have the last word -- that this does not leave the impression that the last post is correct. Sometimes it is an act of mercy, for all concerned, to just end a downward spiralling discussion. However, I have observed a number of times over the years, that reasonable questions and observations on the main and original topic at hand are diverted away. Perhaps others have a similar view. > Is it meaningful to toss all questions into the same > bag and calculate the percentages of those answered vs. > those "diverted and trashed" as if the questions were > all equivalent units? Btw, my descriptive statistics above were meant in the most casual way, as a rough sense of my impression of the scale of sincere "responding posts" to diverted or ignored ones -- not a carefully conducted study. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
