DAMAGED GEAR?!

[Alhanelem]

You try to remove clarity, to bolster your own points.

I do no such thing. I do not EVER remove clarity. If I omit something from a post, it is, in my judgement, not something that contributes to the clarity of the post. Again, I'm sorry if you feel like this is a problem. But my posting style is not aimed at gaining any kind of advantage in a discussion. I simply prefer not to make my posts longer than they have to be. I'd really appriciate it at this point if you didn't try to make me sound like a weasel or otherwise being manipulative. That's not what I'm trying to do.

Regardless, you must have had some kind of problem with my original post in this thread, otherwise you wouldn't have been driven to criticize me for how I quote posts. If you aren't bothered, why are you commenting on it? If you are bothered, then don't respond to my posts. There's no value in sidetracking a thread like this to complain about the way a person posts.