Look Jack the Sailor,

To compare the Mudcat Forum OBIT threads to an actual funeral is pretty offensive, considering the disrespect we see being expressed about and to others in this forum every day.

This is a discussion forum, and the etiquette and manners of a discussion forum, even when discussing a person's death, are totally different than the etiquette and manners expected at a funeral. This has got to be one of the most disingenuous arguments I've ever seen here.

My point is similar to that of Joe's--if you start a thread labelled "OBIT" and then fail to include any information about the person or commonly found in an obituary, you leave yourself open to criticism by others. Especially when it appears to some that you aren't doing anything more than starting a celebrity gossip thread, and trying to pass it off as something truly sacred.

Bullshit is what I says to that.