Do posters intend to hurt the feelings of other members?
It is usually the case that members engage in spirited, often passionate, discussions in threads. That’s normal. Regrettably, often those discussions veer off the tracks, where members are offended or genuinely have their feelings hurt by the content of others’ post(s).
Do posters intend to hurt the feelings of other members? Your thoughts?
@oregonpapa : Almost every post I have had removed on Audiogon was meant to be and obviously was meant in good natured humor.
I know that is tough for a moderator, especially if they don’t have the time to know various members or research the context of a post they are considering deleting. But then you run into the issue of deleting posts that shouldn’t be while any number of mean spirited posts go untouched.
I actually got a kick out of one of mine that was deleted. It was a Monty Python quote in reply to another Monty Python quote: "Yes, well, that’s the kind of blinkered Philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage."
I think it is funny because who, other than John Cleese, would say something like that these days?
Are you not allowed to copy and paste somebody else’s post? I copied another post to update it on a new page and my post got deleted but the original post remained...
Maybe somebody only saw your copied/ pasted post and took exception to it and reported it but did not bother to report the original post. Hence your post got deleted but the original stayed.
It really does not matter the content of a post,if nobody reports it, highly unlikely it would be deleted as mods do not trawl through threads without a very good reason.
As I have said I believe just the action of a post being reported can spell its end if the mod in question does not take the time to fully read the post, the thread and it's entire import and content. Which is highly unlikely to ever happen.
What we found funny was the lame excuse for humor Brits found worth watching . Like watching a oncoming train wreck .
MP seemed to be a middle-class thing , When I was an East Anglican squady you could start a fight turning MP on the telly . Officers thought it the soul of England .
@t_ramey Let’s do the copy and paste test, shall we?
Are you not allowed to copy and paste somebody else’s post? I copied another post to update it on a new page and my post got deleted but the original post remained...
I just thought it would be handy to recap the why of the argument, the scenario or in-situ of the argument...(lots of recent science reporting bits were involved in that post. There is no self generated hyperbola. Well..maybe a little. We all gots flavours.)
"I’m reporting you, celander for saying "Folks will report anything". "
I’m reporting elizabeth for accusing celander of saying "Folks will report anything".
I find the word "folks" to be very offensive. Calling people "folks" is a microaggression and is on the top 100 list of words waiting to get on the official list of trigger words.
And if things couldn’t get any worse Google Chrome recognized the word "microaggression". Which to me is a microaggression.
I'll go one deeper. I remember something that Dietrich Bonhoeffer (one of my absolute heroes) said:
"Where [the] discipline of the tongue is practiced right from the beginning, each individual will make a matchless discovery. He will be able to cease from constantly scrutinizing the other person, judging him, condemning him, putting him in his particular place where he can gain ascendancy over him and thus doing violence to him as a person."
I rarely have that discipline of the tongue (keyboard).
You know what's interesting is to pick on a forum category - say, "Speakers" - and then go back to the VERY first postings there (in "Speakers", they're from 1999) and see how the language, engagement, syntax, and civility has changed in the last 20 years.
In some cases the changes are palpable. In others, you can see echoes of the snarking and ankle-biting so prevalent today.
@elizabeth : "Let alone the ones now well into the thousands of replies (usually by the same few people)."
I think the exception to this is the threads that simply discuss what someone happens to be listening to at the moment. Nothing deep. Nothing technical. Little or no snarking or incivility. But, a treasure for those of us looking for new music, especially rock music which is now practically counterculture.
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