tj444 -> RE: Lets be honest have you ever reported anyone (1/13/2013 7:59:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kaliko I have trouble understanding why I would report someone when other people may be enjoying the conversation. In fact, I'm of the belief that even when, or especially when, someone is arguing with another on these forums, they are in fact enjoying themselves. They are invested and are feeling passionate about their debate and isn't that a good thing? And when we're impassioned, don't we sometimes get a little heated? Goodness, I know I do. And I know of some people that thrive on that and the two or three of us can sit around the table and raise our voices and be sarcastic and roll our eyes and it will be one fuck of a great conversation. And then for someone to sit at that table and tell someone I love to argue with that he/she has to be nicer to me? First of all, way to be a killjoy. And secondly, I find it to be condescending. It's insulting to me that someone else may think they need to monitor how others speak to me on the forums. I'm 39 years old, for pete's sake. I got this. (And for the record,...I personally don't engage with people on the boards if I know they're going to be nasty. You will seldom see me be truly argumentative on here, and even these last few posts are quite a stretch for me. I'm actually kind of a chickenshit on the boards. But that may be why I so enjoy watching those who have monumentally larger balls than I. And I dislike having that pleasure taken away from me. It's part of why I like the boards, and part of why I feel they're in decline. But that's another thread. Or two.) well,.. I ignored the quartet also & the threads they took over... The problem is that the thread becomes totally dominated by 2 or 3 people and most that dont want to get in the middle of an online fist fight just run away from the thread entirely & ignores it.. which is why it becomes dominated by the 2 or 3.. What is wrong with the 2 or 3 people doing that via email instead of taking over the thread? Imo, its very much like thread drift, and that is not allowed.. I get that you enjoy watching that, some people enjoy watching UFC on tv too (which to me is the visual version of these "battles" lol), personally, I find both boring, brutal and instead of contributing to the thread, I just leave... I cant be the only one that does that..
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