TerraDreamer opened this issue on May 01, 2005 ยท 150 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Wed, 04 May 2005 at 11:16 AM
it is much easier to flame and call names than it is to try and make some logical sense to someone who may oppose our point of view. if we treated these threads more like actual debates, and, less like "look ma...i've got 87 posts in that thread, 'n am willing to call anyone i think is a lout a d**bg" we might be allowed a bit more fun on this site.
True.
There's a dichotomy between 'free speech' in the forums -- and allowing anybody to say anything to anyone.
There are websites that allow the latter.
Such sites can be interesting places to visit -- sort of like visiting a 3rd-world warzone -- but I wouldn't want to live there.
One tends to see the absolute worst in people there. And that isn't a good thing. In spite of the strained reasoning used to attempt to indicate otherwise -- and to label it something wonderful.