I just find that in a conversation involving multiple people, it helps not to direct your statements to the lefthand ceiling-corner of the room.
DIAPDEALER!
I've been coming to the conviction over the past couple months that it's just best practice, when responding to specific statements in a thread on any forum, to quote those statements, or at least some representative sample. Otherwise I end up creating miscommunications or finding intervening posts (or mod actions) have changed the context of my statements, or going on longer than necessary trying to be clear just to get around the necessity of quoting.
Also, now I'm curious what kind of spam runs two pages
