The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43757   Message #640654
Posted By: Amos
02-Feb-02 - 12:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Recent Member Epiphanies
Subject: RE: BS: Recent Member Epiphanies
I dunno. My take has usually been that Guest or EMmber is irrelevant EXCEPT when the anonymity is used to avoid the REAL groundrules of baseline courtesy, the case where hurtful, sarcastic, snide, underhanded, vituperous, carping, generalized, callow, derisive, mocking, ad hominem, illogical, persiflage and raillery are offered from the stupidly-conceived "safety" of an anonymous position, leaving others with no concept of the source or to whom they are communicating. This is not behavior designed to encourage communication, dialogue or understanding. It is craven, usually, and childish in the extreme.

THAT is the kind of post I get inclined to flame, although i have learned mostly to forebear.

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