AquaticSub
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Frankly, if you think that this site is full of such terrible people, I wonder why you are here.
She never made any comment at all referring to how common these sorts of people are, just that they exist...which is quite correct.
The OP has made a few comments along this line recently. If she truly feels this way, than I still wonder why she chooses to be here. I don't see any difference in my wonderings than hers.
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Generally, people on CM don't fillet each other over grammar unless said person is attempting to portray themselves as smarter or superior to everyone else.
But, less-than-generally, people will make grammar, spelling, or punctuation comments for little reason...half the time making one themselves in response.
As I say later in the post, every group as their jerks. I don't particularly see a need to make a post about a few jerks when, if they are being an ass, one can just ask why they felt the need to say that.
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What you think is mean and scarastic isn't mean or scarastic or others.
lol
Which is why the PN thread recently was a maniacal slingfest!
I musta missed that one. That or I'm tired and don't know which you are referring to.
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This is intended as nicely as possible but... you don't get to be the judge of what is mean and awful.
Actually, she does. It is precisely her (or anyone else) that makes something mean and awful if she makes that perception. Either that or there is no mean and awful and a whole mess of folks here would look awfully silly.
She gets to decide what she considers to be mean and awful. That's quite different being the judge of what is mean and awful. I regard that as the mods' job, for better or worse.
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That is what the mods are for.
Sort of. they're there to determine if a complainer's assessment of "mean" or "awful" sufficiently conforms to whatever parameters they've set in their private web-home enough to take active steps to remedy the event(s).
If a person objects to the types of behaviors that are allowed by a site's rules, than I truly do not see the point in staying on the site to complain about it. I would understand an attempt to change thing if this wasn't about the millionth thread I've seen like this. Evidently, it doesn't work so if someone is going to attempt change, they need to try something new.
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Instead of creating threads that have already been done a million times and clearly haven't had an effect, you can A) call the person out on their behavior or B) report it to the mods. If their behavior is out of line, the mods will handle it.
Actually, the way this thread is phrased seems to me a bit more genuine is dissecting the issue than actual whine-threads of the past.
There we'll have to disagree. It's less balant but doesn't strike me much differently.
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There are some people that I would agree go too far. But oh well. This is a group of people. And like any group of people, there will be those that I don't agree with their way of doing things. And that's fine. People don't have to like how I do things.
Fair point, but this isn't entirely true. In any human social structure, with enough displeased community members, your actions do have to be liked (if you want to reamin part of that community or if you want to avoid consequences).
I'm not attempting to get into a debate on human society. 
If people on this message board don't like how I do things, I really don't care. I've learned a great deal here. I'll probably be here for some time longer. But if, for whatever reason, I decide I don't like the waters, I'll leave.
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I have to say though... I'd rather someone who is openly hostile than someone who is passive-aggressive about feeling sorry for us all. Quite frankly, that isn't a nice thing to say. And if you are going to complain about people being mean and rude, you should probably follow the old rule of "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all" and lead by example.
I don't think pointing out the fact that people do actually behave this way when they do is "saying something not nice".
Whereas I regard it as not following the old adage of if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all.
That isn't to say I don't think the opinion should be expressed. Only that it does strike me as hypocritical.
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