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If your answer to the question was "no", you should say "no" and then clarify. It's not that hard.

• Tloewald 13y ago
  I neither like misrepresenting other people's positions nor am I prone to doing it despite not liking it. Have I misrepresented your positions? If your answer was "no" then why not say that?
  • saraid216 13y ago
    ...not sure if you've mistaken me for someone else. I have no part in this discussion except making the procedural point.
    • Tloewald 13y ago
      Whoops. Sorry about that. My point (addressed incorrectly) stands. It makes less sense for me to answer "no" than for the person I was responding to to answer "no". If I was making a "straw man" then in what way was it straw? If I was misrepresenting his/her opinions, how so? Otherwise, if more-or-less accurately summarizing a person's positions is ad hominem then what does that say of those positions?