... If I removed all bad mannered posts then people would feel freer to post what they wanted without having to live with the shame of us reading their rude posts. People should take personal responsibility for their words.......
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Chris, I understand your position and agree with you entirely. However, if someone makes rude, sarcastic or irritating comments about someone in their posts, they have to expect to receive the same back in response.
I don't know what can be done about it except to implore everyone to have a more open understanding of other persons viewpoints and to absolutely avoid making any 'rude, sarcastic or comments that are designed to irritate'.
One of the problems is that it can be very hard to detect the underlying feeling in comments made in writing as opposed to when they are made face to face in real life.
I believe the IT term for the way ill-considered comments can erupt into full scalle abuse is 'flaming'
I hope we can 'flaming' well get rid of it on Firenet
