Author: KarinsDad
Date: 08:46:09 09/17/99
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On September 17, 1999 at 02:27:37, odell hall wrote: >On September 17, 1999 at 00:06:09, Mark Young wrote: > [snip] >> >> Excuse me a moment, but I have a complaint about the aforementioned complaint. >>First I think that complaining is offensive unless of course it is used to >>complain about a previous complaint. Therefore I would like to register this >>offence. Sorry Mark, it doesn't wash. You cannot weasle your own complaint in when you are arguing against complaining. :) Nice try. ;) Next I believe that is imposible to write most anything without risking >>offending someone whether though intent, misunderstanding or just plain contrary >>thin-skinned individuals. I agree. I do not understand why the moderators get some of the complaints that we do. But, we have to handle them and Bruce handled it in a manner which did not delete the thread (which a whole boatload of people always complain about) and brought it out into the open for general discussion. (Please excuse the use of the wording "thin-skinned" >>for those of you out there that may be epidermally chanllenged.) >> >> Now at times we all write things that offend through intent, and even that at >>times should be certainlly allowable. Since some people are certainly highly >>offended at even the slightest offence. For instance if I say I don't like your >>favorite chess program you might be offended. Now for those that broady >>intrepret the writtings of others, misunderstanding can occur which offends. >>(Please excuse the use of the word "broad" for those that may broadly (oops >>sorry again) interpret the use of that word.) Surely the author of such posts >>can not be held responsible for the interpretations of such people. And lastly >>those that are easily offended will find themselves offended with this post, and >>this sentence in fact. Heck, they may even be offended by the word heck or even >>by this word...no wait maybe this one...or that one...no the one up there. Well, >>you can just never tell. And for this last type of individual the best advice I >>can give them is to "get a life" but of course this may be too offensive for >>them to hear. Once again, I agree. But, I also see their point of view. We all have to co-exist here and although I do not always agree with some people's complaints, I do think they have the right to complain, especially when they do it in an appropriate way by Emailing the moderators. > > > I could not have said it better myself, I think we have to look at what the >intent of the author was before we make judgments about what he says. It is >clear that I meant no offense , so why should people be so rediculously petty, I do not think people are always being petty when they complain about these types of things Odell. Just like one person may react negatively to another person calling their pet program a joke, one person may react negatively to a phrase which they have never heard before and which on the surface, sounds like an abusive action. I do not think it is necessarily petty to be concerned about this type of thing. However, in this particular case, I personally would not have worried about it. I considered it a basically tackless phrase (due to the fact that I had never heard it before) and blew it off. If someone would not have complained, we would not be having this discussion right now since the moderators would not have considered it worthy of deletion or major discussion. >ofcourse you can never please everyone, expecially people who go around looking >for faults and imperfections in everything. Simply a folk saying in my neck of >the woods that transcends class, and social status, perhaps not the kings >English exactly , but certainly nothing worthy of being censored. And it wasn't censored. It was just commented on due to us all having different backgrounds. That's what open forums are all about. Communicating differences and different ideas. KarinsDad :)
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