Oh, this pisses me off..

[gridlore]

One of the more annoying people on the Traveller Mailing List has begun editing quotes to meet his standards. Not just fixing spelling and punctuation errors, which is annoying enough, but wholesale changing of things like sentence structure and units of measurement.

Everyone has asked him, in increasingly strident tones, to please stop this, and he simply expresses amazement that anyone would be bothered by his editing, and that he has every "right" to change things and then represent it as a quote.

I am reaching the point of plonking the guy. He has pissed me off before, and is a right-wing moron whose views are strident to the point of solipsism. He's always right, and what he likes is of course what is best for all of us. But what gets me is that in the face of no support at all, he continues to contend that he is right.

Comments

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

He's such an incredible moron that he makes normal morons seem intelligent.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

I am reaching the point of plonking the guy.

<AOL>me too<AOL>. I've even changed from digest to single-message, for the very first time, in preparation for possibly having to take that step.

God save us from contrarians who mistake that quality for free-thinking individualism.

[johno.livejournal.com]

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<his quote - reedited for clarity, grammer, spelling, etc>
Something completing different from what he said.
</his quote>

See what he does then.

Metric to Imperial???? -- Didn't we loose a space probe due to that?

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea; try misquoting him once or twice, see how he likes it. When he bitches about that not being what he said, tell him, "Ah, but I was only doing what you always do to the rest of us, misquoting. A quote, to be useful, isn't what you want someone to have said, it's EXACTLY AND ACTUALLY WHAT THEY REALLY SAID, dammit!"

Or something to that effect. Me, I'd just have plonked the guy the first time he did that and claimed he didn't see what was wrong with it. I have no tolerance for several things, plagarism being one, hypocrisy another, and deliberate quote fraud another.

[isomeme.livejournal.com]

The problem is that every single person who holds their own against universal disapproval thinks they are Martin Luther King, or Galileo, or Socrates. And, indeed, 0.00001% of horribly annoying troublemakers are in fact visionary geniuses whom we are not yet ready to accept.

Of course, the horribly annoying troublemakers all think they are on the short side of those odds, while in point of fact 99.99999% of them are merely jerks.