Mosca opened this issue on Dec 11, 2002 ยท 102 posts
Mosca posted Wed, 11 December 2002 at 12:45 PM
In an earlier post, Lyrra said: "Any person commenting in a non-constructive negative or derogatory manner will have the comment deleted and be warned. If this behavior is repeated, further actions may need to be taken." Then the thread was locked before anyone could respond--the implication being that comment from R'osity customers was not welcome. I will now, in violation of the New Directive, make the following non-constructive, negative, derogatory comment: In any free and open forum, arguments crop up. Differences of opinion occur. Issues are thrashed out. Why are we so afraid of passionate interchange? Are people so thin-skinned, so emotionally fragile, that they can't bear the slightest whiff of conflict? It's not always possible, if you feel strongly about something, to frame your every remark in "positive" terms. The more rules we have about what we can say and how we can say it, the less likely it becomes that anything worth saying will be said.