oh, the issues aren’t independent.
to reply, i’d discuss and ask about meta and methodological issues, like goals at the forum, and how your conversations end, not reply directly. ppl generally dislike and avoid those discussions. they’re not necessary but if posts are written for direct, immediate benefit to the author in the local context, then i just have to not reply to a fair amount of stuff without explaining, but you’re welcome to post lots (no reply isn’t a problem; the more posts i have to read, the easier it is for me to find some that work well to reply to).
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