Allow me to answer your questions.

1. Do I want to tell everyone about the request I made of you over e-mail? You mean this?

Hi Dixie (sorry I don’t know your name),

Could you please do me a favor and re-diect your conversations on my video to private ones with the individuals? While I have no problem with your debating the finer points of the video, the every-few-minutes comment-update e-mails I get from YouTube are getting irritating.

Thanks in advance,

Or were you referring to this?

Hi Dixie,

I checked out YouTube’s settings and it’s a bit of an all-or-nothing. Either I accept e-mail notifications of new comments or I don’t. As to your question, my suggestion was to write to individuals directly a la regular, old e-mail, not in comments. That won’t be broadcast anywhere.

By the way, I’ll respond to your comment on my site shortly. I respond to comments right away when I think I can give a quick and easy answer. Yours would take a bit more effort.

Or possibly this?

Hi Dixie,

Still gonna get to your comment… I’ve given this a lot of thought and I’ve decided I agree with you, that my request was silly, that if I cherish open discourse, I have to be okay with even that with which I don’t agree or which I find annoying. Rip me to your heart’s content.

It’s true. I’d requested that you move a conversation, which was obviously between you and someone else, between you and that someone else. I’d made the request solely for the purpose of reducing my e-mail from both of you.

2. Where did I get your e-mail address? Oh, that’s easy. You gave it to me. When you filled out the comment form.

3. Why did I use your e-mail address? It seemed the most likely way of directly getting in touch with you in order to reduce the number of e-mail messages I got from you and your sparring partner(s).

4. Who’s supposed to be clued in by the “/Yvonne”? Anyone who wasn’t previously clued in.

Now that I’ve answered your questions, I’d like to make a couple of things clear. Call me whatever you want. Think of me whatever you want. Feel about me whatever you want. Say about me whatever you want. You already do. I don’t care. From this point on, I’m ignoring you, on this forum and all others. I may even reserve the right to block you here and on my channel should you choose to make argumenta ad verbosum on either. I haven’t decided yet. In either case…

Have a nice life.

I mean this, in case it’s not clear: .everybody here would understand whom you meant with “Dixie.” Who is supposed to be clued in by the /Yvonne?

Passive-aggressive cowardly swipes–damn, you’re good at those.