NOTE TO MARK ON "COPY AND PASTE" | 2007-09-15
Mark thought my reference to "copy and paste" was another swipe at his comparing the South African site, which IS good, to BUGS, which, it is critical to point out, is unique I wouldn't be doing it.
'Tis profoundly true that I love to give Mark hell now that I'm too old for him to punch in the mouth, but I am afraid that in this it misses the point. As I KEEP explaining, something that someone said REMINDS me of something.
I had a visceral dislike of Mark's comparing that site to BUGS, and someone put it better than I had by calling it a copy-and-paste site. But that term "copy-and-past" gave me a new insight. It is a term for so much about comments that I criticize.
There is so much hard thinking to be done here, so many expressions like mderpelding's all big events in history come as a complete surprise to experts, that I get a sense of frustration when AFKAN, who COULD speak short profundities, goes right back into his groove for the hundredth time. He's improved that a LOT.
To me, "copy and paste" has the broader meaning of making BUGS just another blog. If that's what it is, what the hell is the POINT? I've DONE my stints as one more foot soldier a hundred times over.
No, Mark, "copy and paste" means a lot more than it did when we originally discussed it. It gets to the heart of what we are doing.