First of all, thank you for trying to answer, and your detailed answer.
You seem to post lengthy replies regardless of whether you have anything to add to the conversation or even if you understand the points you're trying to reply to. My conclusion is that you are not so much concerned about adding to the discussion and learning something from it as you are concerned with making sure you have been involved in some way.
That's because I want an intelligent discussion. I don't want to Lead it, and the last thing I want to do is End it, but I come here for the discussions. Ending it means having to find something else to talk about.
From my perspective, this has unfortunately derailed many interesting conversations I was either directly part of or reading by provoking members into tangents where they feel the need to try to clarify what you either didn't read or didn't understand, or just tell you to get lost entirely.
I'm sorry for that. However, contrast that with my perspective that every time I try to discuss something, I am actively told that I'm wrong, missing the point, off topic, or I think I know everything about everything. I am not provoking this response. I'm certainly not replying int the hopes that I can tie up 3, or 4 members at once with a tangent argument about how I'm missing the point, rather than continuing the discussion from where I joined it.
I also have no expectation that you will alter your behaviour at this point either.
Again, I have. I even pointed it out, several times. You don't notice (That "You" is plural.) It takes an effort to alter my way if thinking, and for that effort, I have see no results. So, your expectation, that my reply will have nothing to do with the topic is self fulfilling: All you have to do is find 1 comment within, in passing, where I mention Bananas, and focus on that. Quote that, "What does this have to do with bananas?" Then, the topic becomes about how this isn't about bananas, the same 4 members come on to yell at me for daring to mention banans, and whatever point I was making is ignored for the bananas I mentioned in passing.
I just think that you do now try to antagonise, often totally without provocation, and the useful, insightful posts are the exception rather than the rule.
No. I'm sorry it appears to be that way, but my goal is interesting discussions, and hasn't changed. (Aside from having a place to post my stories. Outside of the Story Boards.) Again, the same 4 memebers see my reply, and before even reading them through, they're triggered into attacking me, because I dared reply.
In short, the mere act of me replying to a topic is taken as a provocation. Regardless of what I say. [Psiberzerker replied] is now universally accepted as antagonistic. The worst thing that can happen to a thread, regardless of what I say.
I'm just asking why.