Thank you, Eftach, that’s very sweet of you! Keep reading, though…
(Also, I don’t know of any “report card comments” location belonging to me – there was a public one, but it’s been dedicated to Patur Aval Assur for a while now.)
I have created a dilemma:
The comments I previously put on my profile were posted by people
who were unaware that their words might be used in that context, i.e. meisi’ach l’fi tumo (for those familiar with some halachos about testimony). Eftachbchinor’s post (above this one), however, was created with the intention that it be used in that way.
Does this render it less authentic in a way? Can or should I use it? (According to who or what, anyway?)
I’m also not sure I want to have as many as 3 quotes from a single user – this might make such users seem like unreliable sources of opinion about me. In fact, what if they are? Can or should I use quotes from such users?
It only gets worse. Now that I have called attention to my profile, can anyone be considered meisi’ach l’fi tumo? From what I’ve seen, it appears that the majority of users read the majority threads.
Let’s examine the context the quotes would be put in:
“here are some nice things people have said about me:”
It doesn’t seem deceptive to add anything whatsoever, unless
I can surmise that the poster didn’t mean what they were saying, and I think it’s self-understood that nice things aren’t necessarily objective.
I’m just taking all this too seriously, like I do the entire Coffee Room. 🙂
So I’ll just put Eftach’s quote up with a note that it was on the record, and I ask anyone who remembers, when saying something nice about me, that what they say might be quoted later, to note that they are speaking on the record. As for the too-many-quotes-from-one-source, who says it has to be convincing? (I may consider a cap later.)