Izzy wrote:So you say. Yet the fact remains that your activity has gone way up now that you have three votes and thus a bandwagon, and attention is on you. You cannot dispute this.
My activity has gone up since I stated that I won't bother trying to read nine pages before posting. The fact that I have a wagon on me is irrelevant and clearly not the cause of my increased activity as you're trying to depict.
Izzy wrote:You voted for me because I voted for you. You have said this. Then you posted some self-justification for your scummy behaviour that fails to hold water and fails to form even a vaguely convincing case as to why my decision to vote for you because of your scummy behaviour should be considered scummy. It's total OMGUS, and since GC has spotted it too, I'm not the only one who sees this.
The fact that I have more reason than "OMG YOU ARE VOTING ME I VOTE YOU" is enough to make the vote something more than OMGUS. Also, your appeal to authority/majority is noted.
Izzy wrote:you had time to waste elsewhere. You had opportuinities to catch up yet you chose not to and to fall behind. That is most ceertainly unwilling.
Feel free to read my ongoing games, or even my overall contribution on-site. I posted wherever I didn't have much backstory to read; check my
newbie, I fell behind at approximately the same time I fell behind here.
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GC wrote:Maybe I'm missing something. Tell me how his understanding is incorrect.
You post on April 8th - the bottom of page 11 (post 274).
You don't pay attention to the thread for a few days.
You come back April 12th - the middle of page 15 (post 362).
Your "come back" post is immediately (as in, 3 minutes) following Dizzy's request for you to be prodded. This makes it look like you were keeping up with the thread.
I checked the thread and saw a call for a prod on me. I responded. And it was Izzy's request that prompted me to check the deadline rules and make the decision to contribute based on interactions rather than reading the backlog.
GC wrote:I find it hard to think that the one hour and ten posts that it took for you to shift your position somehow made you believe you couldn't catch up.
This is unless you assume that in that time I checked the deadline rules and saw that I didn't have the time to properly catch up.
GC wrote:And then only 12 hours later you claim that you are now nine pages behind (post 386)! And that you originally were only a page and a half behind. If you came back on page 15 and were only behind a page and a half, but when you get to page 16 and now claim that you're nine pages behind I have to call bullshit.
This is a blatant misrep. If you have been following the game at all, I fell behind on page 4 approximately, and
that
was when I declared a backlog of 1,5 pages. If you do your research at least make the effort of doing it right.