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Originally Posted by techhelpbb

It is really easy to think something is a rant if you merely assume the other person is that shallow and that they have no audience. Thing about it is this is also a dismissive. If one really thinks that something is a rant then it has no risk because anyone that follows it will not achieve anything. Realistically assuming out of billions of people who could read a public forum I seriously doubt you will find too many things with no audience or people that feel in some way similar.

I'm sorry, I may not have been sufficiently clear:

I posted that categorization because I think it is a useful tool for people to reflect on their own posting habits (it has certainly been for me), not so much to judge the posting habits of others. I would be lying if I said I had never ranted on Chief Delphi. I suspect it is the same for other people, which is why I posted that, but you are completely correct in that it would be very poor form to claim that someone else was ranting in lieu of an actual response, and it is not what I am advocating.