Originally Posted by Nigel Quin
Originally Posted by Michael Zaneski
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.

Just in case further clarification is needed. My post was a direct response to Everett's original post, I was not referencing other posts within THIS thread, if it seemed like I was then I assure you that was purely unintentional. If I were to comment on anything you or anyone else had said, I would do it directly, like we are doing now. I posted what I thought was an interesting, valid, and mildly amusing thing to throw into the discussion.

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

Me and the bot say Amen to that!

Nigel, no one rational would ever think you had bad intent or were attacking anyone. You are free to say anything you like here and no need to clarify just to please others. People have such thin skin as they have recently (the past 10 years) been re-educated to think on mainstream social media. We have been here 25 years already on this board and aside from gratuitous directed attacks, we haven't had any problems outside anonymous trolls 20 years ago.

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