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VaguelyCurious -> RE: Is it alright to insult someone for spelling of grammatical error and if not why... (8/19/2010 3:23:57 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Icarys
See I think I have an unbiased approach. I think these people are your friends and in order to remain friends you might choose to look the other way. It could also be that since you agree with them you couldn't possibly see where I'm coming from. Maybe you do and like I've said..you choose not to say anything.
I'm not sure-I'll have to go away and think about this one, ok?
It's not that I think nobody on these forums is nasty or sarcastic or harsh, because obviously we are-that would be a blatant lie. But I *do* think there's a line most of the posters I would consider myself to be friendly with will not cross, and you hardly give any impression of thinking there *is* a line at all-it's a question of severity. But maybe you're right, maybe my perception is swayed by the fact that I *am* friendly with them, or that I have a good idea of where they are coming from.
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I think your missing some of what I've said before. I can't be thinking that if I admit I've been wrong too. I think it's more along the lines of "I'll probably keep this up as long as people choose to deal with me and or others in similar harsh ways whether I agree with it or not" At least for the foreseeable future.
So it's wrong but you're still going to keep doing it because everyone else does? Before you asked if I wanted to be thought of as a bitchy nitpicker. Now I'll ask you if you want to be thought of as someone who is doing something he thinks to be wrong just because everyone else is doing it?
Because I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with the odd 'dude, it doesn't cost you anything to hit the return key every time you decide to wildly change subject...' in the context of a forum. But if you do, and you're still doing it, then...in my view that's kind of worse than my vague moral ambivalence about snarking at strangers if they irritate me.
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If your kind to me I will surely be kind to you..
I don't know about that, Icarys. If I wasn't so useless at remembering what happened in what thread then I think I could pull up a few examples to the contrary.
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What I notice is sure..Some new people come in and fluff their chests up and start crap but at that first post it isn't personal is it..It's only when a person replies and then gets a retort does it keep going till it snowballs..Accusations on both sides are thrown..It's not one sided..Not one side is correct yet it seems some think differently. I think in some cases that's true-but not all cases. Some people come in looking for a fight-sm22's thread about how creepy male doms are, for example, was an attack even before the first reply.
I think I don't have much sympathy for people who start with a chest-fluffing thread and then get hammered because my own entry to the forums was kind of easy. I tend to think 'how hard is it exactly to read a few threads before you post and work out how you're likely to be received?' So perhaps I don't get too bothered when people go over-the-top in their responses to an over-the-top first thread when I would otherwise say something.
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