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Originally Posted by spanktehbadwookie
Individuality is amazing and flexible. IMO.
It's take little more than a direct assertion of personal intent to simply and easily opt-out of a forum game.
Everyone else is responsible for their own individual choice to participate in the poll and the thread.
Beyond that it is almost impossible to argue about.
Opting- out is clearly harmless and a useful, individual benefit.
Since were doing translation here... let's take this message and try to decode it. Step 1: Part of editing for length, as
thechef suggested, is removing the
Captain Obvious stuff. Like "Individuality is amazing and flexible. IMO." & "Everyone else is responsible for their own individual choice to participate in the poll and the thread.". This give us...
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It's take little more than a direct assertion of personal intent to simply and easily opt-out of a forum game.
Beyond that it is almost impossible to argue about.
Opting- out is clearly harmless and a useful, individual benefit.
Step 2, let's take the first sentence/paragraph. I'm going to assume that "It's take" is a simple typo and should be, "It takes". I'm also going to guess that "forum game" here refers to the poll. Once again... you should really try not to try to 'puff up' your writing with fancy-sounding terms like this. It's always better to be simple and direct. So now we got...
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It takes little more than a direct assertion of personal intent to simply and easily opt-out of a poll...
Now let's turn to this little cup of word soup in the middle here. All it really says is 'post notice'. Let see what we got now...
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It takes little more than posting notice to opt-out of a poll.
Beyond that it is almost impossible to argue about.
Opting-out is clearly harmless and a useful, individual benefit.
OK, I'll skip the next relatively trivial steps, and we finally get to...
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Opting-out of polls is both harmless and useful. It takes little more than posting notice to opt-out of a poll. Beyond this, there is nothing to argue about.
OK, it's no longer gibberish.
However... it doesn't tell us what
spanktehbadwookie means by 'opt-out', it doesn't tell us what else (little as it may be), besides posting notice is needed to 'opt-out', and it doesn't tell us why
spanktehbadwookie #feels this new 'opt-out' policy would be useful or harmless.
It's a bunch on nothing wrapped up in a ball of gibberish.