I'm not sure that chez would appreciate your questioning of the need for him to confirm or deny an unimportant hypothetical, but hopefully he will chime in here and clear it up.

Probably because he saw Bruce's apology.

I am sorry and sincerely apologize that you aren't smart enough to understand.

Mat clearly went to bat for Bruce.

Not sure. Chez reminds me of the spinster aunt that just wants us to all have Thanksgiving dinner together despite last year's fiasco.

Yes! Wonderfully so!!!

Looks like the BrianTheMick2 bot is broken again

You aren't supposed to say such things out loud.

Deja vu virus. Please stand by for reboot sequence.

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Why should I answer any of your questions while you are being excessively argumentative? You did choose to use words like 'diarrhea', which is derision. Are you responsible for your own behavior? Can you adapt to different behavior? You are free not to answer.

Uninformative, and misleading mockery.

You guys still don't get cherry-picking or having one-side opinions from incomplete (cherry-picked) information? Or you do get it, realize the mistakes you have made, and use mockery and derision to avoid those mistakes. Whatever- it's on you whatever the case.

Anyway, excessive argumentation is a really bad look at this point. It has been clearly identified as prominent behavior which does not settle this community conflict.

A good choice for people who want to end and settle the conflict is to be aware of your behavior and avoid excessive argumentation such as mockery, derision, and accussation.

You sure have.

Did Chez give this props? Or at least acknowledge that it was funny?

Yeah kinda

Which I think was chez's best post itt.

I had no idea The Duker was so creative. He's getting a mention in my thread I also didn't know chezlaw's first name - it does sound about right. Cornelius Chezlaw.

Of course all Bruce had to do at several points was say nothing. That's what he should have done but it was a very heated situation and it's easy for us to say but not necessarily reasonable to expect.

The fact Bruce could have ended it by saying nothing doesn't in any way mean that others weren't also responsible. This fiasco could have been avoided in many ways (including after Bruce has shut up) but as per wookie's recent statement did they even want a reasonable solution?

The only reason it was a heated situation is because Bruce has the emotional control of a 3 year old.

Bruce didn't want a reasonable solution, so we could only choose the most reasonable solution given his unreasonableness

Sure he did. He even offered to shut up about anything but maths for 3 months.

So easy to say, 'ok lets see what happens after you have properly cooled down and whether or not your 'empathy/understanding' of what you did wrong prove sufficient in practice'.

but that's not what you wanted is it?

One-sided, argumentative, accusatory.

A reasonable solution includes apologies that you already agreed never happened.

Any time any of y'all want to quote any of these apologies, olive branches, or offers by Bruce, speak up, don't be shy. Thousands of posts of lead up are quite enough, we are ready for substance.

Accusatory, one-sided, argumentative.

This poster also acts like his opinion entitles him to make irrational demands for apologies.

Nope, we've unagreed on that it seems. Round and round we go...

Apology trolling is a even worse than derision and mockery. We all know apologies happened, they just do not meet mr wookie's hubris-laden demands. Hence a reason to keep the conflict going.

I surmise mrwookie does not want to settle the conflict and would rather keep pushing forward with demands, accussation, derision and mockery. He probably can't or won't explain why.

Yeah, as always quoting exactly what Bruce offered that was so reasonable would help

Shallow, mocking, and uninformative.