User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-31010985-20190928203157/@comment-31010985-20191014151218

Obviously it was never my intention to engage in a personal attack and I think my careful wording of the post referenced reflects that. I agree that without context, this: "you are now actively manufacturing a dialogue between us that never happened and misrepresenting both of us."

might be considered a personal attack. However, that is not the full sentence. A more accurate representation of what I said might look something like this (emphasis new): "I passed off your earlier comment about "Scrooge MacDuck's unattributed quote" as a mistake but it seems like you are now actively manufacturing a dialogue between us that never happened and misrepresenting both of us."

The phrase "seems like" completely changes the meaning of what I said. At no point did I say you had been "manufacturing a dialogue". At no point, did I accuse you of wrongdoing and I stated specifically that I had assumed good faith by judging the first instance of this slip to be an honest mistake. Indeed, I started off the post by admitting my confusion, further highlighting that I simply wanted your elaboration rather than to attack you. I apoligise for any offence a misinterpretation of my words might have caused you.

Secondly, I would like you to match my attempts at good faith. Contrary to your comment, I was not "waiting for the mistake to be repeated". Instead, I simply thought pulling you up for a minor mistake such as wrongly attributing a quote that contributed a mere sentence in your quite lengthy response would have been inappropriate and verging on off-topic for the sake of extreme pedantry. It was only when you made the same mistake again but in the context of giving the impression of a conversation happening that didn't did I feel it was necessary to mention it.

Once again, I apoligise for any offence caused and now that you have edited your previous posts to elaborate on the situation I hope we can now return to discussing the matter at hand.