mdbruffy opened this issue on May 26, 2008 · 50 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 27 May 2008 at 4:33 PM
Quote - p.s. IMVHO admins are the same everywhere. they're more patient than most. they won't
ban one for the opinion itself, but rather the way in which it's expressed: via repetitive posts
insisting the complainant is right, by use of abusive wording in said complainant's posts, et al.
Well said.
There are ways of debating a point -- and doing so with strength and passion -- without resorting to desperation tactics such as name-calling and questioning people's motives for saying what they've said. Both tactics are commonplace in forums & in the world at large......but both tactics -- even when they seem to 'work' (which can happen with people who are easily intimidated or who are excessively sensitive) -- even when such tactics "work": they don't actually win. They merely give the illusion of winning -- like finding fool's gold mixed into the mud.
I've never been impressed by endless strings of expletives wrapped together into an explosive bundle & then thrown in the general direction of an opponent as a debating tactic. The ranting fool who stands and shouts at passerby on any downtown street corner can do the same -- and just as effectively.
It's a good thing that nobody's tried to do that in this thread.