Author: David Rasmussen
Date: 09:19:51 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 11:42:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >Certainly, Vince seems to have invited this sort of thing upon himself with >questionable posts of his own, but I don't think that means everybody is thereby >entitled to likewise to Vince. I don't like the idea of the lowest common >denominator setting the standard of behavior for everyone else. I think instead >the moderators should have step in much earlier with this sort of thing and all >this could have been headed off. It's very simple: If a person repeatedly spouts nonsense and seems to have _no_ empathy towards other people and their ideas _ever_, and won't listen to reason, people will sooner or later react. If those people are then moderated, fine. It's still expected behavior. You want the moderators to step in earlier. When? If this was a moderated newsgroup, a lot of the nonsense that vincent is posting would be moderated as trolling. I'm not sure if Vincent realizes this (having no empathy at all), but that's the way it is. If you want to participate in relations with other people, you have to do it on equal terms. That means that you have to listen to other people and their reasons and ideas. Thinking that you're always right is truly a sad state of mind. And of course it upsets people. A simple psychological and sociological fact. There is no point in just bashing Vincent just for the sport of it, but people actually get offended in the presence of such blind social behavior when it involves them. I know I do. A lot of the way I just say "it's his weakness, I shouldn't make things worse", sort of with a village idiot (no offense). But sooner or later when that village idiot continues to proclaim him self king and the only one who knows and repeatedly says things that people _know_ are wrong, I can't help but react sometimes. That's the way it is. Moderate it if you will. Maybe you should moderate Vincent's trolling too, then. /David
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