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I don't mind, I like you, you know that ;-)
(e/c) stands for edit conflict. It means that someone wrote a reply to the original statement but someone else wrote their reply faster. So the original statement was replied to already, but sometimes (if not answering a question for help) people like to add their reply as well. (e/c) is added to indicate that the poster tried to reply but got into an edit conflict when doing so and to indicate that have not just indented their reply in a wrong way (and that the reply is not to the other reply but to the original statement). I hope that was clear -) Why "