John, once again, you're misrepresenting my views.

I'm sorry if what you write isn't an accurate representation of your views and that you see this as my fault.

JI agreed with Marcia's point about what I'd be doing even if the MVP didn't exist.

That wasn't her point. She said that wanting to be a MVP is a terrible motivation for answering questions on a forum. She referred to her own behavior only in support of this main point; without the main point, the example is pointless.

If you'd also bother to read what I said, I was addressing Marcia's statement about search and posting previous message IDs. Yes, Naomi does some of that (which is fine), but she also takes the time to provide many solutions on her own.

That's the second point, not the first to which I was responding. If you bother to read what you wrote, it's pretty clear.

I'm not objecting to anything other than you misrepresenting me.

Then you need to be more careful to say what you mean. If you agree with a point made by another, you can't then insist that you were simply agreeing with with an example rather than the point itself.

If people want to strive to be an MVP, hey, that's great. But I would hope that they are also driven in some measurable way to help people.

IOW you agree with me and with the link to the MVP site I provided. Perhaps if you'd said that in the first place rather than saying you agree with the opposite, none of this would have happened.