2K is probably counting each time we come back to read the next comment in a lively discussion.
I understand where spiphany is coming from. Somewhere is the forum is a post - Diana asks … which disconcerted me, because mine was a ‘jam in the sandwich’ comment within a longer discussion. However, since my question grew into a fresh discussion - that was a good decision looking back.
It seems we got our wires crossed and my understanding of what you were doing was not at all the same as your understanding of it. Probably you were trying to explain this all along but I was unable to hear it. (I also seem to have completely missed or not understood your explanation in your initial response to me, and I am finding the chronology a bit muddled – when I had last seen the thread prior to the translocation, there were only a couple of posts in that sub-conversation, so it isn’t obvious which ones were moved and which were posted later. Meaning that my response may have been conditioned by a mistaken understanding of how much was moved that contributed to the impression of arbitrariness.)
There were, I think, two errors in judgement, either of which would not by itself have been critical: not clearly communicating the intention in moving the posts and a less than ideal choice about where to put them. Had the posts been put somewhere else I might have figured out the intention; and had the intention been communicated, I would have approached the question about where the posts should be put with rather more calmly. It was bad luck that, in combination, it was a perfect storm that left me angry and hurt and as a consequence I have been subjecting you to a flood of outrage that is largely undeserved and must have seemed rather baffling in its vehemence. So I am sorry, too.
Now that that misunderstanding has been cleared up, I do see why it would make sense to have the posts in a separate thread, if it would not hopelessly confuse matters at this point.
Thank you for taking my concerns seriously, however overblown they might have seemed.
I am sorry about the drama. It appears that the brain gremlins decided this was an excellent opportunity to go on a rampage. Normally I try to avoid melting down in quite such a public manner, but it rather snuck up on me.