Courtesy in Comments

We've had discussions of this before. Here's a new recommendation:

If anyone posts in a comment on a blog, forum or other comment referring to another earlier comment, blog or forum in the same thread something to the effect: "That's not what I meant." accompanied by an explanation of what the poster thinks they (themself) actually meant -- no one should insist in a comment in effect that: "Well, yes but that was what you said." with expansions, lists and refutations.

There's no end to that sort of thing. A miscommunication has happened, as such things will, time to move on and expand on the new information rather than dwell on the miscommunication.

BTW, "themself" is a word, apparently. :) I spotted it being used in just the way I used it above in no less than the London Times last week. It's sort of elegantly awful, innit? :)

Hugs,
Erin