Perhaps you need to re-study to re-learn "basic online etiquette" - I believe you may have learned your online etiquette from the wrong teacher.
If someone quotes your post,
it does not automatically mean that they are making a rebuttal against - or negative remark towards - whatever you said in the quote.
When someone quotes your post, it means that they wish to use the quoted material as a reference for what they intend to say in that particular post.
That is the
only assumption you should make - period. Anything else to be "interpreted" from it should/must come from
whatever it is that they said in their post.
What they have to say may be positive, negative, or indifferent with regard to what you said.
It is not even necessarily true that they are "speaking" directly-to-you-only.
Read it again - I wrote it correctly.
They are only utilizing what they quoted to help them get across the point that they want to make.
Remember this - and don't forget it!
Don't be quick to make assumptions about why your post was quoted.
It should serve you well to remember that 'common sense' is the best teacher when it comes to things like this.
It is
because of the lack of voice, tone, body-language, etc. that we must endeavor to "give the benefit of the doubt" to other posters as much as we are reasonably able.
Don't
react to this post and write a back-lash post - it will only reveal that you are "not listening"...
Believe it or not - I am only trying to help you (and possibly others who may read it). That's it! That is the whole reason for me taking the time to write this post.
I am not angry. It is not my intent to insult you or even hurt your feelings - or any other similar such thing.
I just want to give you something to think about that may help you in the future...
You may find it worthwhile to keep these verses in mind when posting to these forums:
Proverbs 16:
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
James 1:
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.