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stellauk -> RE: Debate! (7/19/2012 5:31:16 AM)
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I've gone through three threads here (plus I've been away from the boards or lurking) and this thread in particular gives me a strange feeling..
It's the same feeling I get whenever I'm in a room full of Americans.. I hear the words, I'm aware of them, I understand them all, individually, but there's also that lingering doubt that I don't quite understand the entire context or why all the words have been used as they have.
I think two things here. Let's be banal first, people are people.
But also what you have to bear in mind that no matter whether you are starting a thread or responding to a thread you are posting to an audience of different people. Here is no different to anywhere else where there is an audience, whether it be music, theatre (erm sorry, theater), a business seminar, the only given is that there's no guarantee how the audience will respond to your words.
It comes back to that point about people being people. Once you've written what you want to share and hit that button it's there, it's posted, it stands. It's published and goes out to the audience.
Starting another thread because you've got the hump with people over how they responded it's a bit like having the hump with any community of people or even society in general (and please bear in mind that there's quite a few people in secure institutions or subject to care in the community because they have issues with 'people in society').
It's this way because of culture, culture is the collective, and you will find that these boards - just like any other on the Internet - have their own culture.
There's nothing wrong in being new here. We were all new here once, and I'm sure each of us can remember our own bloopers and outtakes, but rather than fight the culture here wouldn't it be best to try and work with it?
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