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OK, I will.

But I also got a notification about a big comment you posted but it is now deleted. Did you want to rewrite it or did you give up on it?

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I could not initially reply to you. Your comment rubbed me the wrong way, because I had no intention of trying to degrade anyone, and frankly, I was offended. But I thought better of my hasty and emotional response. I would rather take a deep breath, re-focus, re-engage, and be educated in a thoughtful dialog than get into a mud slinging contest. I am always willing to be enlightened.

A tip, in your profile you can set a delay which is a number of minutes before your comments will become visible to other people. Mine is set to 2 right now. This gives you time to edit your comment (helpful for some longer ones) but also to write some garbage response and then think better and delete it before anyone's the wiser.

It's also helpful to give you time to re-read a mostly good, but maybe not polite, response and tone down your response.

Much appreciated :)

That is a good tip.

Commendable, still let's not forget that the part I quoted was the beginning of a mud-slinging contest that you seemed willing to start. ;)

So indeed, let's re-focus and re-engage.

To that end, I will post you a longer reply Later™.

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