[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kaoruAngel:
Paul22000:

When someone says something that doesn't make sense to me, I ask them to explain it to me. Do you agree with this reaction or do you not?

Now, when someone states a series of inaccuracies and uses the balance of those inaccuracies to publish a purchase-influencing, inaccurate conclusion (intentional or not), it becomes more than a personally confusing single statement but also disinformation/FUD/false advertising [and along with that a higher urgency to be resolved/fixed]. Do you agree or do you not?

I also believe that you have let your hurt feelings lay waste to the attention I pay to my written and spoken word specifically to stray from making potentially inaccurate statements. I say this because I try to be meticulously careful in the verbiage I use, specifically so as not to state more than I actually know at the time and this thread is no exception.

(1) There is a reason the content of my original reply is a series of questions to you (note the red-herring question marks) not statements. The reason is:

that I am asking questions of you

. I like to ask questions when I can't be sure of the answers, since that leads to understanding.

The first question/request that you will find in my post is a request for clarification. And incase it was not clear to you why I needed clarification, I highlighted the part that shocked me for you: the ratio of tax to base cost in your calculations.

The second question to you -- since, without inhabiting your body, I cannot know whether the intention actually was to mislead people or whether there were just an unfortunate number of mistakes in your post -- was just that: I asked whether you were actually trying to troll (whether it was intentional), or whether there was some other reason for the inaccuracies of your post.

For reference, I'll quote below the section of my last post that listed my 'points of confusion' with your original post.

Since then, although you've "humbly" chosen not to mention it in your reply, you've went back and quasi-fixed all of the inconsistencies that lead to my original questioning of your post. Inconsistency #1 was already explained before you even posted to be an 'awful' and 'brutal' unusual sales tax oddity apparently limited to California. You additionally updated to fix inconsistency #2, and quietly removed your suggestion that Wirefly is the cheapest (major inconsistency #4), but chose not to mention/fix the reason why (inconsistency #3 [unaddressed]).

I understand that you're upset to hear a candid side-remark about banning even coming up in the proximity of your name (maybe I'd respond the same way myself if I were in the situation also-- probably silently, however), but you should really just recognize that there was a an unfortunate mess of either unusual, outdated, or just plain wrong information up there (that was apparently completely unintentional!).

Unless you're part of totalitarian regime, never suggest that people should be censored/banned for questioning people's conclusions (especially when the conclusions end up being false). And XDA, as far I understand it so far, is much more about asking questions than intimidating people not to.

Shall we close this thread?