Originally Posted by
tandempower
It was a rhetorical question. Cyclists are as visible as anything else on the road. Motorists may have to cross bike lanes when turning but during straight line driving, they don't. Do you realize your tone is getting more aggressive?
First, rhetorical questions are not readily determined on online forums. It is better to assume that someone means what they actually wrote unless some other emoticon or such is used to indicate otherwise. And for your rhetorical question I suggest researching the difference between seeing and perceiving while researching bike lanes and their problems.
Originally Posted by
tandempower
Oh, sorry if I confused you with someone else. Multiquote makes it hard to keep users straight sometimes. Bless my heart? Thank you, I think. Idk what that means though. All I said was that the post sounded like trolling to me so I stated that it did. I wasn't sure if it was intentional so I asked instead of assuming and accusing. Isn't that clear and diplomatic. I could have just gone off on an assumptive rant without asking if the offending statement was intentional. I decided to be diplomatic instead and ask. Before that I just stated that it 'sounded like' trolling.
This still feels like trolling to me the way it felt like harassment when some journalist asked GW Bush if he would 'testify' about something instead of just asking him about it. I try to communicate clearly and you compare me with Bill Clinton nitpicking over sexual confessions and 'southerners' saying "bless your heart."
Since you clearly don't understand the term I will explain it to you. Trolling means to make a post that is intended to start a flame war or debate
among other posters. The key symptom of a troll is that they make a post and leave, maybe occasionally throw in more flame starters. If someone is writing multi-paragraph posts that attempt to make a cogent argument (even if not understandable) they are not trolling. Simply making posts that include statements you find flame inducing simply means they don't agree with your pov... One of the prime purposes of debate is to learn to understand (not necessarily agree with) others pov...