Civility vs anononymity

SouthArk370Z

An excellent primer on forum behavior.

I read through your thread that you linked to and failed to see anything even remotely resembling an attack. Just lots of differing opinions.

As for the other thread, to summarize my comment in that thread, "stupid" questions/comments by the ignorant are usually responded to in a positive manner. Truly stupid questions/comments can get pretty brutal responses.

All in all, I'd say this is a rather well-behaved place. The S/N ratio is very high. Considering the number of posts, the amount of crap is very small. YMMV

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Chuck33079

The amount of crap is small, and when we go to town on someone it's usually justified. I think there is a bit of a disconnect here. If I am in a group of friends in real life and I say or do something that could be considered retarded, they will be merciless. Certainly much worse than people receive here. And we're all friends. There's an understanding that it's just ribbing someone for saying/doing something stupid. Online people seem to interperet everything as dead serious, and that's usually wrong. It's like I've told my GF- if there's two ways you can interpret something, and one of them pisses you off, interpret it the other way.

But, for the love of God, type so we can understand you. It doesn't have to be MLA standards, but a forum is a place where we communicate using words and sentences. Make it easy on us.

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SouthArk370Z

Aha! There is a lot of good-natured "harassment" on this site. Eg, a recent comment of mine about DEpointfive0's fashion choices. That's just boys being boys.

+10

If you make a typo every now and then, no problem (as long as we can figure it out). Don't know what something is called? Describe it the best you can and we'll try to identify it.

If English is not your primary language, we will do our best to help you out. But if English is your primary language and you can't be bothered to use something that at least resembles proper English, don't expect us to spend the time figuring out what you mean.

IMNSHO, forums are not the place for textspeak. YMMV

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