# Dface's First Impressions of a Microblog About Misquoting by ET (was: Elliot’s Microblogging)
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943
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**Created:** [July 31, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943 "2024-07-31T23:39:42Z")
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943/1 "2024-07-31T23:39:43Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/226):
**Topic Summary:** My first impressions of a microblogging post about misquoting.
**Goal:** I want to have experience engaging with a post.
**CF relevance:** Might be relevant to replying to posts on CF
**Do you want unbounded criticism? (A criticism is a reason that an idea decisively fails at a goal. Criticism can be about anything relevant to goal success, including methods, meta, context or tangents. If you think a line of discussion isn’t worth focusing attention on, that is a disagreement with the person who posted it, which can be discussed.)** I don’t know
> [@Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/226):
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> > [@Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/222):
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> > Has anyone researched EMFs as a health concern who would like to discuss them?
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> Imagine if a quote like this example above, which appears to be generated by the forum software, was inaccurate. Imagine someone selected the text, clicked quote, then went and changed the words. That would be really bad, right? And it’d look intentional and easily avoidable. If someone said “I only made small edits that didn’t change the meaning”, that would be a terrible excuse which admits they did it on purpose. You shouldn’t edit the accurate, software-generated quote at all. Or if you have an important reason to edit it, indicate the edits with e.g. square brackets.
It took me a third reading to get that changing an automated quote is what’s being talked about and how it’s not a good thing.
I forgot what my first reading was, but my second reading was that I thought it talked about imagining how bad it would be if the machine was unreliable for quoting text and how that’s like the same as someone quoting something manually.
> [@Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/226):
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> That would be really bad, right?
It wouldn’t feel right to me to just agree and be like “yeah, that’s so wrong.” What I’m thinking is so bad is that it would be hard to tell if a quote is a quote or if it’s someone changing it. There would be two versions of the quote, and it would be like rewriting history.
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943/2 "2024-07-31T23:42:33Z")
Sorry I didn’t know the link would just show up as the title. Can I change the title? I’m gonna look at the FAQ rq
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943/3 "2024-07-31T23:46:31Z")
> [@Dface](#):
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> Can I change the title?
yes
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943/4 "2024-07-31T23:49:03Z")
ok ty
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 12:34am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943/5 "2024-08-01T00:34:50Z")
> [@Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/226):
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> And it’d look intentional and easily avoidable.
I’m thinking it would look intentional because it would seem the person changing the quoted words did it on purpose.
I don’t know why it would look easily avoidable. I’m thinking because changing quoted words sounds so wrong that not much guidance is needed to know to not do it.
> [@Dface](#):
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> **Goal:** I want to have experience engaging with a post.
I notice it’s kind of hard to engage with a post cuz there’s a lot of little things going on when reading something. Like it’s easy to mess up and misinterpret something.
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943/6 "2024-08-01T16:20:16Z")
> [@Dface](#):
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> I don’t know why it would look easily avoidable. I’m thinking because changing quoted words sounds so wrong that not much guidance is needed to know to not do it.
I mean if you don’t want to change the quote, it’s easy to not change the quote. Changes don’t just happen randomly or by accident.
> [@Dface](#):
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> I notice it’s kind of hard to engage with a post cuz there’s a lot of little things going on when reading something. Like it’s easy to mess up and misinterpret something.
Yeah I see what you mean.
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-first-impressions-of-a-microblog-about-misquoting-by-et-was-elliot-s-microblogging/1943/7 "2024-08-01T22:57:59Z")
> [@Elliot](#):
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> I mean if you don’t want to change the quote, it’s easy to not change the quote.
Yeah, that makes more sense. It’s a little hard to explain, but if I don’t want to do something then I don’t do it. It’s easy to not do things I don’t want to do.
> [@Elliot](#):
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> Changes don’t just happen randomly or by accident.
I was thinking like what if someone typed in the quote accidentally or something got replaced through find and replace, but I don’t think the quote would be changed as much compared to it being done intentionally.