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Thread #43757   Message #640734
Posted By: Amos
02-Feb-02 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Recent Member Epiphanies
Subject: RE: BS: Recent Member Epiphanies
...Let me just add, since your troll is so successful, that I wish you would read what I wrote before you answer it. I just spend valuable time explainign that the anonymity thing doesn't bother me at ALL; what bothers me is the use of it to engage in sourceless, geenralized perturbation and negativity DESIGNED to HURT.

You have created for yourself in this thread a recognizable and relatively reasonable identity, even though I have no idea who the hell you are in real time. I am happy to speak to your issues, because you are apparently trying to communicate.

Maybe it comes down to a misunderstanding on the term "Discussion Forum". in my experience, those who think that sniping, carping, and harmful generalization are elements of "Discussion" are either extremely immature, psychotic, or too fearful to communicate rationally.

This is not to say that guerilla communication is never useful. But it is not rightly included in a site dedicated to discussion.

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