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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Don't bother. Pepsifree has just been leaving snide/provocative responses to my posts in various threads since we had a disagreement a little while ago. It's a weird thing to do, but not worth engaging with. I just stuck him on ignore, and I'm frankly not bothered what he replies to my posts.
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No he doesn't. You're misinterpreting his posting style as personal when it isn't.
He's one of my top five favourites on this board and I like to think we're kind of forum bros; however, that doesn't stop him from calling me out in the way you're describing if my perspective is off base/wrong/in need of reflection.
The way he calls somebody out is by astutely extracting the core of somebody's meaning from the extraneous fluff/misleads in their argument. He boils it down to a simple point, but he does it with a bit of humour that can border on snarky, but that's a perfectly reasonable style of humour. Then he turns the mirror on you and if you don't like what you see, perhaps it's not him and perhaps it's you. Is he infallible? Of course not. He can disagree with you and be wrong, but he's definitely earned - and deserves - the respect of your consideration of his perspective if he's taken the time and interest to work with you on seeing things from a different point of view.
It's a shame you have him on ignore. You're missing an opportunity to enjoy and benefit from a unique poster with a perspective most of us need.