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Originally Posted by TheDoode
So... Meat should just ignore 'certain comments' while the perpetrator gets to say whatever he wants?
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Don't get me wrong. I did not mean that people should be allowed to offend Meat (or anyone else). I hope you read the rest of my posting, too.
I once heard Ray Charles sing "sticks and stones may break my bones but talk don't bother me". For many years, I had to communicate with people from all over the world, with different personalities, backgrounds and interests. Over the years, I've developed a very good feeling for people and their motivation to say certain things and to behave in a particular way. I believe many comments aren't really worth to be taken as serious as they appear and that many escalations that have happened on this forum were absolutely unnessary. Often people's tongues (or rather their fingers in this case) and egos are just quicker than their mind.
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Originally Posted by Kathy
But repetetive negative posts feel like being poked with a stick over and over.
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I think that was the actual problem in that particular case. Someone felt repeatedly criticized and attacked by someone else. The thread that got locked wasn't a discussion, it was a battle.