I don't know -- I'm not used to judging an event based on its usefulness outcome. It happened; some people cheered at bald speech and others frowned at context and privacy; that's all the judgement I can get out of it. I can guarantee that on the internet, it will happen again, and maybe the furor will be bigger next time, or smaller.
The only redress I've seen on the internet for quoting out of context is the quoted person reposting a whole conversation, possibly with analytical exegesis, to make clear what was meant. Kind of closing the barn door after the horse has gone, but, it can salvage a reputation.
> AND the comments were then taken down anyway, on request.
Many are the ways to retro-kerfuffle! When a post is being actively discussed, many people will take screen captures to be able to back up what they're responding to in case of deletion, alteration or lockage. It varies by local custom whether those screencaps are automatically made available, or only upon private request, but the idea is for the discussers to be able to prove they're not just whistling Dixie and knocking down straw men. Alternately, there is always Google cache, which ktempest discovered held an unaltered version of the post in question, as late as yesterday.
Well, I presume from the hints and allusions that Moles had a result in mind when it came to pasting the commentary, so it is at least useful to measure projected results against actual results.
The only redress I've seen on the internet for quoting out of context is the quoted person reposting a whole conversation, possibly with analytical exegesis, to make clear what was meant. Kind of closing the barn door after the horse has gone, but, it can salvage a reputation.
> AND the comments were then taken down anyway, on request.
Many are the ways to retro-kerfuffle! When a post is being actively discussed, many people will take screen captures to be able to back up what they're responding to in case of deletion, alteration or lockage. It varies by local custom whether those screencaps are automatically made available, or only upon private request, but the idea is for the discussers to be able to prove they're not just whistling Dixie and knocking down straw men. Alternately, there is always Google cache, which ktempest discovered held an unaltered version of the post in question, as late as yesterday.
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I'll try Google right now!
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