Originally Posted by Nigel Quin
It was in no way directed at you, in truth my ‘stay on topic’ remark was a general one regarding some threads which tend to meander, I added the smiley face icon to show that it was a light-hearted comment.

Thanks for clarifying that, because for all practical appearances it was directed at me, since I was the only person up to that point to use a chatbot to create something and present it here. Then your post said the equivalent of "here's how to present a chatbot's writings, but WITHOUT going off-topic."

I'm sure you can see how I might have felt that was directed at me, specifically, albeit in a smiley-face-friendly-way, since I was the only person to present chatbot writings up to that point?

And if you were directing that specifically at me, that would have been totally okay. Nothing to worry about! I mean, it did seem like you did, and so I directed my response with that in mind.

At any rate, life is too short, so I'll just chalk this up to another case how hard it is to communicate well.

Cheers,

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 03/02/23 04:52 PM.
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