Re: The Good Thing About Giosue ...


> ...Being insulted is annoying,
> but being judged too boring to elicit a response is far worse.

Which is when inexcusable, very personal assaults have been known to arise
here... of the sort, for example, I have not let be said with impunity, for
many years, in my "real life", and won't be overlooking here.

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"Matthew Winn" <*@matthewwinn.me.urk> wrote in message
news:mbqbi159qfulv107o2rhov8s8g987401bt@xxxxxxxxxx
> On 12 Sep 2005 19:58:41 GMT, "b or t k-c"
> <koco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> For some, though admittedly not lately me, there's a cumulative effect of
>> seeing one's name, ideas, sexual orientation, etc. routinely trashed for
>> no
>> reason other than personal animus, historically self-excused as "just
>> typing".
>>
>> Noel and Tim, it seems to me, go for long periods of time being
>> non-responsive to unwarranted, occasionally quite vicious, attacks.
>> Eventually, being human, they get "fed up", and reply.
>> I, personally, even though it has neither "made friends" nor "influenced
>> people", have given up trying to be non-responsive. I tried it, for many
>> months in fact, and it accomplished absolutely nothing, except, possibly,
>> for the escalation in the mean-spiritedness of the attacks.I don't
>> believe I
>> deserve more than a small fraction of the trashing, two posters in
>> particular revel in, consistently and continually heaped on me. It has
>> become very personal and insulting, and I have no intention of letting it
>> go
>> unaddressed.
>
> I see your point, but in general I believe that responding to that
> sort of post just shows that -- in the mind of the person who posted
> it, at least -- the post is hitting its target. Everyone here is
> capable of judging such attacks for what they are, and I'd prefer it
> if these people just ranted in isolation. Being insulted is annoying,
> but being judged too boring to elicit a response is far worse.
> Certainly I would be incredibly put out if I'd tried to insult someone
> and given it my best shot only to find that not one person in the
> entire group cared enough to react.
>
>> By the way, I believe only one "side" claims to, in essence, be "the
>> heart
>> and soul of RATM". We "horribles" appear, to me, to have little or no
>> interest in that role, or in squashing divergent opinion. That is, again
>> it
>> appears to me, entirely the interest of a very small minority here.
>
> I guess you're right at that. In some of the more heated threads
> I lose track of who's posting what and get confused, so I partially
> withdraw the accusation.
>
> --
> Matthew
> [If replying by mail remove the "r" from "urk"]


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