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[Andrea Rennick]

"To the extent that, in the worst cases, I've actually started asking "Can
we see the site using 2012...all plugins deactivated... blah blah?"."

Yep, I say this a lot all day too. :) Funny thing is, so many people think
their blog will go *poof* or somehow break.

A couple times I've even said "Well it's broke now, it can't get much worse
if you turn stuff off and it actually might fix it"

Keep on rockin Esmi. ;)


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:32 PM, esmi at quirm dot net <esmi at quirm.net>wrote:

> on 07/02/2013 21:36 Andrew2.Nevins said the following:
>
>  What has she contributed, at least 100,000 posts?
>>
>
> Please don't. I look awful when I blush!
>
> I particularly liked the "then it turns out that they a) lied". And I
> thought it was just me sitting here muttering "I don't think I believe you"
> at various points throughout the day. To the extent that, in the worst
> cases, I've actually started asking "Can we see the site using 2012...all
> plugins deactivated... blah blah?". It's truly amazing how many people
> either never respond or suddenly find - oh - this time when they
> deactivated their plugins, <foo> started working again.
>
> I get that people are attached to their current theme. I understand that
> plugins may provide some "essential" functionality on their site. But what
> on earth do they expect us to suggest? Turn around 3 times widdershins
> whilst chanting "Abracadabra"?
>
> I think my mantra for February is "There is no such thing as a magic
> bullet".
>
> And, yes, I freely admit that I do copy'n'paste a lot. I even have a nice
> little app that stores tons of clippings for me that I've built up over the
> years and tweak constantly. Pasting is a darn sight faster than typing and
> means that I can respond to (and hopefully help) a lot more people than I
> could if I hand typed every identical response. But apart from the odd
> brain hiccup, I never paste mindlessly. I always try to read first and
> consider what the best response might be. If the best response happens to
> be copy-pasta, so be it.
>
> And one big plus for copy-pasta is that it stops you losing your temper
> when you have to effectively say the same thing for the 3rd time in one
> topic! :-)
>
> Thank you, Otto, for your considered reply.
>
> Mel--
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