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Thanks for your feedback and thoughtful reply! FWIW, I used quotes because the rose that grew from concrete is a poem, and a phrase that is not my own. My inte
by devin 5y ago
Thanks for your feedback and thoughtful reply!
FWIW, I used quotes because the rose that grew from concrete is a poem, and a phrase that is not my own. My intention was to not pass it off as my own. What I should have done is quoted or referenced a particular essay of PG's to demonstrate that he has in fact written posts which use a similar logic. In any event, I'll be more careful on my quotes in the future.
Your links are helpful, and based on them, I think you were right to call me out. Thank you.
One suggestion: Perhaps the site guidelines page could reference a couple of these links? I recognize they're off-site, but when I popped open a dictionary and a thesaurus to figure out how I'd crossed the line on "fulmination", it was a bit unclear to me which definition I was dealing with. Granted, precision is not always the solution and moderation is always going to require a bit of feeling rather than some strict criteria by which one comment is allowed to slide and another isn't, but it's at least worth considering IMO.
Thanks for being a great mod, dang!
- dang 5y agoThank you for the kind reply! It's on my list to eventually compile those links and the principles they explain into some sort of commentary on the site guidelines. There's too much material to put into the guidelines themselves; if those get too long, no one will read them. They're probably already too long :)