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Jackenobi
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The Ethics of Editing
#5692870 - 05/30/06 10:16 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sometimes the urge to edit my posts becomes an ethical question of mind, intent and even spirit. I mean particularly the 'mark as edited' yes/no? feature, stupidly enough.
It really pisses me off.
Mostly though i choose not to mark as edited as i am an egotistical perfectionist. Nor do i want to show my weakness, not, of course, that there is one.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5692965 - 05/30/06 10:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't like to edit my work because every word I delete is like killing one of my children. But still, some children are bad and if they persist in being bad they must be deleted for the sake of the work.
thats why its better to work with a good editor. You can toss ideas at eachother and reach an agreement, and if the combination is good, the work is better overall.
nothing wrong with editing if its done properly. The important thing is not so much the author or the editor, their egotistical intentions. The important thing is the work.
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Jackenobi
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: DoctorJ]
#5693073 - 05/30/06 10:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I am feeling the children metaphor 
the rest also
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5693127 - 05/30/06 11:03 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jackenobi said: Sometimes the urge to edit my posts becomes an ethical question of mind, intent and even spirit. I mean particularly the 'mark as edited' yes/no? feature, stupidly enough.
It really pisses me off.
Mostly though i choose not to mark as edited as i am an egotistical perfectionist. Nor do i want to show my weakness, not, of course, that there is one.
So funny you posted this.
I was just thinking the other day, that the reasoning system, when deleting, would be neat to have on the edited function.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5693207 - 05/30/06 11:29 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sometimes I'll say something out of anger and frustration, and go back and quickly edit it, partially because I don't want to get in trouble for flaming, but also because I realize how immature it is of me to say such things.
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Jackenobi
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Silversoul]
#5693253 - 05/30/06 11:38 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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im more of a 'fuck the nuance of that sentence totally ruins the tone i intended to strike' kind of guy.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Silversoul]
#5693279 - 05/30/06 11:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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its really hard to be polite when others are impolite to you first.
but then again, sometimes an insult does a person good. You have to slap people in the face with the truth sometimes. In a perfect world, it wouldn't be necessary, but unfortunately this ain't no perfect world my friend.
still I choose to be 99% polite, with that other 1% being the nasty side.
Unfortunately that side of me comes out on this board a lot. But which would people prefer? That I vent my impoliteness as words on a bulletin board, or as bullets from my gun?
I'm an expertly trained killer. But I choose instead to teach. For killing is distasteful to me in most circumstances. But death can be a very good lesson, and sometimes needs to be taught.
If people don't want me to keep firing bullets, they should stop giving me ammunition
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5693800 - 05/31/06 03:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jackenobi said: Sometimes the urge to edit my posts becomes an ethical question of mind, intent and even spirit. I mean particularly the 'mark as edited' yes/no? feature, stupidly enough.
It really pisses me off.
Mostly though i choose not to mark as edited as i am an egotistical perfectionist. Nor do i want to show my weakness, not, of course, that there is one.
if you feel it's to convey your message more directly, go for it. but if it changes the message of what it's actually saying, that's a whole different story.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5693828 - 05/31/06 04:44 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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the psychedelic experience is like jamming out on a guitar or poetry that rolls right off the tongue, the backspace key really isn't very psychedelic all.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5693846 - 05/31/06 05:02 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jackenobi said: Sometimes the urge to edit my posts becomes an ethical question of mind, intent and even spirit. I mean particularly the 'mark as edited' yes/no? feature, stupidly enough.
you only get the choice to mark as edited for a few minutes after the post im a serial ninja editor  mostly cuz i dont preview
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: CosmicJoke]
#5693881 - 05/31/06 05:28 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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CosmicJoke said: the psychedelic experience is like jamming out on a guitar or poetry that rolls right off the tongue, the backspace key really isn't very psychedelic all.
I'd propose that is one of the more psychadelic keystrokes of them all.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5693885 - 05/31/06 05:30 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jackenobi said: Mostly though i choose not to mark as edited as i am an egotistical perfectionist. Nor do i want to show my weakness, not, of course, that there is one.
If you were a real egotistical perfectionist, you would preview your messages. 
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5693916 - 05/31/06 05:52 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I do all my editing before I actually post my message. I am a perfectionist, and tend to re-read my posts several times, until it says what I want it to say, edit it as needed, then post it.
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Jackenobi
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I'm a sloppy egotistical perfectionist If that isn't too much of a contradiction for you!
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the idea of the backspace key is brilliant, can't argue that.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5694054 - 05/31/06 07:56 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Jackenobi said: Sometimes the urge to edit my posts becomes an ethical question of mind, intent and even spirit. I mean particularly the 'mark as edited' yes/no? feature, stupidly enough.
It really pisses me off.
Mostly though i choose not to mark as edited as i am an egotistical perfectionist. Nor do i want to show my weakness, not, of course, that there is one.
I never even think about it. I love to edit my posts as I find better ways of expressing myself. I have never cared who knows.
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: Jackenobi]
#5694611 - 05/31/06 11:57 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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It is essential for me as German to edit. First, I try to write, what I think, what usually ends in lousy incomprehensible rubbish (even in german [as I wrote stories {and intend to do it again}, too], hehe, but of course more strong in english) then I have to normally reedit for a few times. I always hope to be inside the limit of the >mark as edited< disability while not forgetting my intentions of the original post  I usually make a full stop, if I see someone has answered (provable at the editing time).
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Jackenobi
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Re: The Ethics of Editing [Re: BlueCoyote]
#5694778 - 05/31/06 12:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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BlueCoyote said: I always hope to be inside the limit of the >mark as edited< disability while not forgetting my intentions of the original post 
Sounds like every essay ive written with my dribbling mind this year!
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