SIGMANUNKI'S BLOG
Everybody's so angry
Saturday, March 4, 2006 9:54 AM
Or at least condescending, or mean or ... to eachother. (yes the title is a play on a thread title from a little while back)Someone doesn't like the movie and points out some flaws. Burn the heretic!!! Someone doesn't see your point of view on something . Flame them , they just must be stupid!
And of course none of this is could be your fault. It can't be that someone has a valid point that you disagree with. It couldn't be that you just didn't explain it properly. Or it couldn't be that they just misunderstood something and it certainly isn't your responsibility to make sure people are actually getting what you mean or it couldn't be that you didn't understand them, because you're never wrong, right?
No it can't be you. No, not at all.
(And no, I'm not saying I'm completely innocent here.)
No, I'm not necessarily talking about whoever is reading this... if anyone reads this.
To be clear, what I've seen over the past months is people starting to get more and more aggressive on the FF/Serenity part of the forums. In fact, it's getting to the point where it is starting to approach what goes on in the RWD threads. Or at least what went on in RWD the last time I participated.
I used to take a break from RWD by going to the other forums and calmly discuss FF with other people discussing FF. Sure, there were disagreements. But, nothing like what is going on now.
Another thing I'm seeing (and this is far more telling of the situation), is the "veteran" posters are starting to post, less and less and less. In fact, it has become the exception that I see a familiar handle on the threads that I click on. This mass exodus cannot be coincidence.
So, here's what I'm going to do (actually I've already been doing it) and I hope others will do so as well.
I'm just not going to do it anymore. I'm not going to discuss with people that use ridiculous hyperbole, condescending comments, etc.
The only thing that they'll get from me after they do such a thing, is telling them that I'm not going to discuss with them until they can "keep a civil tongue in there head." And that's it for discussing with them in that thread.
Because, quite frankly, I'm getting sick of fighting; it drains me. And I got enough crap to deal with in RL, never mind what I am now having to start to put up with in these forums.
So, I'm just not going to do it anymore. I'm not going to speak with those that try to beat people down (even if not intended).
I'm only going to talk to happy, nice people. The people that have supported me and countless others through tough times. The people that carry you when you can't crawl anymore (or at least keep you company when you are crawling or waiting for someone to carry you if they ain't strong enough to carry you
)The real Browncoats.
Because, if we can't get along with eachother, we've already lost.
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