There's a saying my mom told me, it goes a little like this.
"If the audience isn't laughing, then maybe your joke wasn't very funny".
Basically, if you say something and people get offended by it, you can't just backpedal and claim, "oh noes, I didn't mean it like that!". The person was already offended. Most people would interpret your statement in a similar manner, and, as you like to label posts you feel break the rules, "noncontributory, disruptive".
Actually, no I don't. I've been pretty calm and reserved in the last 5 months. Most of the heat comes from other people not agreeing with me. I will admit that I am very persistent, but this is because I believe that it is respectful to address each individual point made instead of labeling half of a post that I disagree with as "gibberish", which is also pretty immature.
oh my god, it's a joke, my avatar is farfetch'd, did you seriously take that insult seriously
I censored my original language and thought "leek" would be pretty clever because I'm a farfetch'd and all, but I guess you weren't exactly able to see that. I thought it was clever :(
I can sometimes call someone an idiot, but my argument never relies on just saying mean things to people. I'm a bit of a sarcastic person, I aim to make my words mildly entertaining since otherwise I write drier than a desert. Please give me one post in the last 6 months that actually shows me relying simply on calling someone an idiot for an actual response in these threads.
Such as what? If I'm using them, then you should call them out and dismantle them. People make mistakes after all, and I do make corrections when necessary.
Actually, it's pretty clear that you're the one who's pretty riled up right now. I'm serious, I think it's affecting your judgement slightly, I think a big part of the problem here is that I'm not particularly emotionally invested (outside of the part about quotas, that's a personal jiff for me that when I hear I wanna slap someone in the face with) but others are. It's pretty clear that you are heavily embroiled in this subject and sometimes, that can make people who disagree with you come off as very unreasonable.
Most of the time, I'm criticizing debate fallacies, instead of providing much of an opinion, or attempting to encourage different thoughts. I find that typically people who disagree with me find my arguments loaded with fallacies but people who agree with me finding such discussions as encouraging or even uplifting - which kind of says a lot about both sides. I wouldn't call it trolling, I do enjoy debate, but I find that people get very personally invested in stuff here and that can make them make some pretty poor judgements.
I mean, all I asked you to do was to apologize for being quite rude to me in the thread and you basically played a bunch of mental gymnastics to put it back on my lap. You should take responsibility for your mistakes and move on, that's all I honestly want from you. You can continue to embarrass yourself by getting extremely heated and not taking responsibility for the fact that you maybe made someone a bit annoyed from something, that's your choice and your choice alone.