Something I find rude - Quoting bits of a post arguing each bit individually

[Champ]

I'd echo the sentiments of particularly sindroms, Echo and Joe.

If somebody has written a huge wall of text and not well formatted it (separating their points between paragraphs as I try to do) then I will take sentences or bits and pieces and reply to them. I am not only reading the sentence, I've read the context but am responding especially to whatever was posited in that sentence / paragraph.

Decontextualising is definitely where you should be careful to use this, but I think it's rare that that would happen unless the initial post really is wildly disorganised or you're very intentionally quoting something completely unrepresentative.

And absolutely on Joe's point, I don't care how they organise their reply, I care about whether it's a well put and accurate reply or not. If they've misinterpreted my first argument because of how they quoted something, that's their own fault and I'll tell them to try again.

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