Deadpoet said:
My spelling sucks. Most people know that.
Free speech. I can say what I want to. This thread was started to address a situation where the OP re-openned a thread in order for someone to post a slam, and then, closing it immediately.
If they were merely expressing their views, leave the thread open so opposing view points can also be heard.
I do not explain myself, my thinking nor my character, I just express my observation and opinions. If I disagree, I raise my objections and view points. Is that wrong? According to you, it is.
Private messaging, what does it achieve? Is there a rule on this forum prohibiting me from posting what I posted?
Btw, read and fully undrstand the situation before you comment, and understand what you are saying before you say it.
Oh, no spell check here, please forgive my typos.
Well, did he exactly slam you? Of course if you take it personally that is. I don't see any direct character assasination over there. Overall, he's just offering an analogy of pushing somebody's work down when what he felt was uncalled for.
Oh but of course if you decide to take that thread personally as a slam, then this thread could be intepreted as a 'slam' back for somebody expressing his or her own views, with the pretext of your question above.
Or if you really need to degorate somebody, there's always private messaging. At least it's kept between you two and not washing any dirty linen in public.
Calling somebody who suck or is misguided, is in anyone's vocab, a direct attack on one's persona. And I do believe it is in the interest of any moderator or whatever to censor or prevent any language that would result in any form of opinions that would result in slander of another person that is uncalled for.
Yeah, you could express your own view points and all that stuff you proclaim that by right you so happily eschew about. But when it comes to a piece of a verbally directed assault on someone's character when it is uncalled for (as you happily did with ms lai, student and stereobox), that's definately taboo.
If you want to ask the OP or whatever about that question fine by this, but there's no need to use that as an excuse to call stereobox or anybody totally misguided. Even if it was OT
If you want to contend this, look under the example of defamation law suits and see if you want to justify disguising your so called 'direct' commentry under freedom of speech.
(And aren't you exactly explaining yourself why you're acting like this?)
Free speech is not only what you can say, but what others can say too. If you happily 'slam 'them back with hasty phrases, then you're basically shooting yourself in your own foot. At least give them the benefit of the doubt.
Oh, and before you could go about me 'slamming' you, I'm already being pretty polite.
Did I say you 'suck', or totally irrevelantly 'stupid'?Or you're 'misguided'?
You want to be blunt, there are other ways to express that without putting people down.
