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Please let me know what behavior of mine in this thread seems troll-like.

These are the behaviors I consider troll-like:

You took a relatively obscure post of yours (which merlyn failed to reply to) and elevated it to a whole top-level node.
You have insistently replied to many nodes in this thread. Granted, you started it to engage in a discussion, but there is a point where you should just let the comments stand (e.g. posting 8 levels deep seems a bit excessive to dwell on one minor point).
In your own words, you described your enjoyment of "heated discussions."

If you would like to search through some of my other posts, you will see that I am a regular contributor to this community

This is why I hesitated to call you an outright troll, and added the caveat that it might just be "troll-like behavior." I have not reviewed your entire post history, and am not prepared to completely write you off. I hope my post wasn't read in that way.

I imagine some members here are assuming that I am trying to be a troll because the object of this post is a valued community member.

Please do not consider me in that group. As I stated, my post had no substantive reply. I do not think merlyn is particularly mean-spirited, but I'm not in any position to defend or condemn his behavior. I was simply commenting on yours.

In reply to Re^3: A modest request of Merlyn by revdiablo
in thread A modest request of Merlyn by delirium

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