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flopstock;1397478 wrote: I believe this type of behavior was tagged an 'odie-ism' some time back. Saying one thing, deleting or changing it and then declaring you never said it in the first place.

that's why we took to quoting her, as I recall.

What you done here Spot, with your confession, is remove the power from your 'find where I have ever said anything like that' challenges you throw out from time to time.

I try to only 'eta' if it is right after i've submitted the post.


To be fair, Spot wasn't the only one who used this practice nor Odie.

We had a member here who would write personal Insults to anyone they didn't happen to get along with when most Brit members were In bed, wait for the person they were attacking to come back with a scathing post, then go back, delete theirs, leaving the scathing response only. This made the person they had attacked look the bad guy and they would act like butter wouldn't melt.

Odie actually fell victim to this person and this practice time and time again because she fell for It time and time again.

What the member didn't realise was that there used to be a setting here where every time a member made a post on a thread you had posted on, their post came through to you as an e mail. So there In all their glory were the nasty's they had written and going back and deleting their nasty made no difference.

Was It deliberate malicious practice? I don't know but It did appear that It was done enough to entrap certain members making them look the Instigator. Then, the Brits would log on In the morning and only see the post by the person that had originally been attacked and Insulted In response. It was certainly calculated because of the amount of times they did It and got away with It.

The original text is always there in your email so long as you've set your preferences to get them. When Odie changed a post I'd just quote with the text from the email instead of what she'd changed it to, she toned down the changes now and then in consequence.

Wow. I didn't realize that I was so unaware of the back stories.

YZGI;1397766 wrote: Wow. I didn't realize that I was so unaware of the back stories.
It's almost like one of those movies about people a making movie, innit?

Accountable;1397768 wrote: It's almost like one of those movies about people a making movie, innit?


Yeah, being left out in these dramas is probably a blessing.

YZGI;1397769 wrote: Yeah, being left out in these dramas is probably a blessing.


I always quote folks if they write something stupid that they may think better of at a later date....

flopstock;1397777 wrote: I always quote folks if they write something stupid that they may think better of at a later date....


Yes, we certainly wouldn't want people to be able to correct their emotional mistakes before we got a chance to flame them...

flopstock;1397777 wrote: I always quote folks if they write something stupid that they may think better of at a later date....


Ok, uh, thanks.

flopstock;1397777 wrote: I always quote folks if they write something stupid that they may think better of at a later date....


That was a very unkind thing to say when quoting Wisey, if you think about it.

YZGI;1397766 wrote: Wow. I didn't realize that I was so unaware of the back stories. My memoirs ' Affairs of a forum' will be available In paperback by November.

YZGI;1397766 wrote: Wow. I didn't realize that I was so unaware.


Fixed it for you.

Layout and indenting adjustments, too. I rarely use Preview, I sometimes adjust once I've seen the post.

YZGI;1397786 wrote: Ok, uh, thanks.:sneaky::sneaky::yh_rotfl

spot;1397788 wrote: That was a very unkind thing to say when quoting Wisey, if you think about it.


but i did think about it.......you've no idea how long it took little ole me to come up with that..:yh_rotfl

posts can never have enough .........

i will go back to add a few from time to time.

Maybe we can add an Insert Post option, so we can go back and say something we wish we had said. :yh_think