- Please, please stop writing pages and pages at the beginning of articles comprising solely of unanswered questions. We're all trying to answer these questions too, that is why we're reading your article so, if you could just stop with the unnecessarily confusing rhetoric and ANSWER THE QUESTIONS it really would make everyone's life a great deal easier.
- Stop asking us to 'suppose'. In the last ten pages I've been a conventional soldier, a terrorist, an unsuspecting passer-by in the way of a rampaging trolley and an innocent picnicker about to be squashed by an exceedingly fat man- if this goes on much longer I'm going to develop a multiple personality disorder and, frankly I don't have nearly enough time to waste playing make-believe. You should feel free to go off and do all the supposing you like (in all likelihood you already have at least one psychological disorder and surely plenty of free time... you are, after all, a philosopher!) get back to me when you've come up with a conclusion.
- Please refrain from using three pages where one sentence would suffice.
- Stop inventing new words: just because they are unpronounceable, have more than ten syllables and are pretending to be derived from several Greek words does not add legitimacy to your claim. They don't exist, they're a figment of your stratospherically aloof imagination, just because you think you know what you mean does not mean that everyone/anyone else does.
And finally,
- Do try very hard (I know it's difficult) to link your ideas together in some way, however tenuous.
