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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 5:40 PM On 2008-04-22 17:03, dibroc wrote: Ok I am not trying to show disrespect to bigbrotiki's thread, speak for anyone else, nor start up anything here. I find this thread interesting but I have not found anything to add as of yet. With that being said, when some one starts a thread they hope it stays on track and many times we get side tracked by other things. Linked is just such a example . A user asked if anyone knew who made or where to get an item. Please note reply #5. The response had nothing to do with the question asked in the first place. We all get off the topic at times. It is easy to do. http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=28136&forum=5&5 Here is the difference: I specifically described in the very first post of this thread WHAT it was that this post was NOT about. After something being clearly spelled out like that, even I would not post something that would run counter to this request (if I ever did, I began my reply with an apology, to show that I was doing it for a reason). The problem is that nowadays a lot of people read over posts HASTILY, and do not fully take in all that is said. That not only leads to misunderstandings (mea culpa here), but to simply posting things mistakenly. Holden didn't read the text, maybe Virani didn't either. So I reiterate. And I have gone over to type some key text words in ANNOYING CAPITALS :) , in the hopes that my text will be more fully assimilated. I know I am prone to post what could be called "off topic" sometimes, but I feel that this board would become very dry and boring if all cross-referencing and contextualization with other subject matters that come to mind would be totally omitted. If I would have not used my ability to free associate subject matters in my books, they would have ended up as stodgy collectors books. Teakeys post is a great example of that: He saw those French Tikis and was reminded of Al's. Wonderful! ....IF I had not clearly stated that such a visual would be misplaced here.

On 2008-04-22 17:03, dibroc wrote:
Ok I am not trying to show disrespect to bigbrotiki's thread, speak for anyone else, nor start up anything here. I find this thread interesting but I have not found anything to add as of yet. With that being said,
when some one starts a thread they hope it stays on track and many times we get side tracked by other things. Linked is just such a example . A user asked if anyone knew who made or where to get an item. Please note reply #5. The response had nothing to do with the question asked in the first place. We all get off the topic at times. It is easy to do.
http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=28136&forum=5&5

Here is the difference:

I specifically described in the very first post of this thread WHAT it was that this post was NOT about. After something being clearly spelled out like that, even I would not post something that would run counter to this request (if I ever did, I began my reply with an apology, to show that I was doing it for a reason).

The problem is that nowadays a lot of people read over posts HASTILY, and do not fully take in all that is said. That not only leads to misunderstandings (mea culpa here), but to simply posting things mistakenly. Holden didn't read the text, maybe Virani didn't either. So I reiterate. And I have gone over to type some key text words in ANNOYING CAPITALS :) , in the hopes that my text will be more fully assimilated.

I know I am prone to post what could be called "off topic" sometimes, but I feel that this board would become very dry and boring if all cross-referencing and contextualization with other subject matters that come to mind would be totally omitted. If I would have not used my ability to free associate subject matters in my books, they would have ended up as stodgy collectors books. Teakeys post is a great example of that: He saw those French Tikis and was reminded of Al's. Wonderful! ....IF I had not clearly stated that such a visual would be misplaced here.

Post #375440 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Apr 22, 2008 5:40 PM