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 Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:17 am Post subject: Argumentative people and personal attacks |
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People are sometimes unaware of how easy it is to become drawn into
personal attacks by the anonymous nature of the net. Those who have
been around for a long time since the day of BBSes and Compuserve and
such will probably agree they have deleted MANY of their own posts
prior to hitting the Send key. Sometimes it's better to vent to
yourself, and then delete before sending. The emoticons were
invented to try to replace the missing body language and facial
expressions. But calling somebody a name and then following it with
a smiley face doesn't do the trick.
If it's something you would not say to a person's face at an EAA
meeting, why say it on the net where your words will be enshrined
forever and searchable in archives for decades to come? There's no
reason for name-calling. Don't forget, there IS such a thing as
private e-mail if you feel you really need to argue with someone.
But, this IS Bob's "classroom". If you don't agree with Bob after a
few exchanges that will enlighten the group, you can always go off
and do it your way. Just please come back and report to us how well
it worked, so we can all be better informed by your first-hand
experience. Experience trumps theory in my book. Create your own
classroom if you have better ideas.
I, too, have had very civil discussions with George off-list and wish
we could all just stick to emotion-free technical discussions and to
the agreement to occasionally just disagree. I've never deleted
anything George or Paul have said without reading it, but have
searched within their writings for any speck of information that I
might be able to learn from. As long as what someone writes has good
data in it, I'll keep reading it. But attacks get boring.
(This was way too long. I should delete it. Nah, I'm allowed one mistake.)
Dave Morris
N6030X
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