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Eh, I suppose. I will admit to that particular flaw; if I don't know anything about a person, the Join Date (among other things) gives me a place to start; newer peeps are usually younger, less experienced or mature, and older peeps are usually older, more experienced or mature. It's not always right (especially the former; some people just join late in life, or have above-average maturity), but the Join Date and some of their recent Posts/Threads gives me a taste.
Amount of Posts is a tricky one; someone with a lot of posts can be a really helpful, talkative guy... Or a noise spamming idiot, like me xD (my Wc3C profile is a good example of that). Someone once said "Awexomeness = Reputation / Posts". I fail pretty hard at that test.
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There are a lot of ifs and buts when comparing join date and post count to a user's age. That's why I find it presumptuous to bring that on the table. I bet I'm in the higher age range of the users here even though I only "recently" joined.
Bringing age into anything when it comes to internet communication is a quick and easy way to start a war on words. Often including the phrases; "shut up kid", "isn't it past your bedtime?" and "your mama".
Anyway. That's the reason why I try to avoid bringing up age in any event, jolly or grave. It always ends bad at some point.
By the way. This; "older peeps are usually older", taken out of context, is pretty lol ^^
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I suppose I would have to go with that; that the "discussion about [his] avatar contra [mine] require a better explanation". I'm not quite sure why. To be honest, if not for that, there may be no satisfactory reason. I suppose in trying to ameliorate things, I accepted that my statement could be construed as condescending or presumptuous. I'm not sure that I believe it was, but if it was received as such, then I was/am honestly sorry for that misunderstanding.
If you didn't see it as such, then there's no reason to beat myself up about it. : )
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I think you chose the right answer here. Whether or not it's actually true I can, and will probably, never find out. But I'll accept it as true.
My concern is based on the fact (relative to the eyes reading of course), that you brought some form of intelligence undermining into the discussion.
Let's leave it. It doesn't matter anymore.
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Huh. Well, who am I to get in the way of a beautiful friendship? : )
That being the case, I'm not sure I understand the phrase "felt I took a bullet"; is that a euphemism for "feeling as though you have been (metaphorically) shot at (i.e. verbally assaulted)"?
Thank you, I appreciate that concession. : )
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Heh you are not getting in the way of anything. Him and I don't know each other. Not here on Hive nor in real life.
I felt I took at shot in form of a phrasing seemingly aiming at my intelligence. You did a great job fencing that off however.
Edit:
I thought you wouldn't write back for some reason. I have seen you online plenty of times after I posted the last message. So I began to wonder. I'm glad you wrote back.