The American Heritage Dictionary defines "pot shot" as...

"A shot aimed to kill", "without regard for sporting rules". "A random shot".

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Yes indeed.

I think it's time we give this term a place in the internet forum community.

Calling someone a Potshotter would be the worst kind of insult to give to another poster, and, if the term has been correctly applied, it should be easily proveable by simply posting the "offending" comment and using the criteria I described in the previous topic post about what constitutes a Potshotter.

What's interesting to me is that when I look at the list of what I considered devious, manipulative, or simply "unfair" posts (and after posting 8,000 times, there have been a couple tossed my way), they ALL fit the above pattern.

I just never had a name for them.

I'm not clumping all anti-posts as being potshots, but the ones I have complained about DEFINITELY fit this description of Potshotting.