“Patur Aval Assur: I’m sure you’ve quoted on the CR from “the great writings making up the corpus of Shas and Poskim” more than
once.”
What makes you so sure? I specifically only quote the non-great writings.
On a serious note, I didn’t say that you should be expected to know of every post in every thread just because you sometimes quote posts. Just like I shouldn’t be expected to know all of Shas and Poskim (well maybe I should, but that’s a different story). I was specifically targeting your excuse for not knowing of that post which was that it was posted before your time. That is not a valid excuse, considering that you do know of some posts from before your time. Much like it would not be a valid excuse for me to say that I don’t know XYZ in Shas and Poskim because it was written before my time. Had you said that the corpus of coffee room posts is too vast for you to be expected to be a baki in it’s entirety then I would have accepted that as a valid excuse. Much the same way as my excuse for not knowing all of Shas and Poskim is the sheer enormity of it.