Personal Attacks

[Ken Anderson]

Please read this page on Personal Attacks. It is not a link that takes you off this site; it's in our help pages.

I can't think of anything more that I could say here that I haven't already said there. We fully understand that some parts of the forum, namely the political section, will sometimes stir members up to the point where they might address their frustrations directly to another member in the form of a personal attack. That's not okay, but it's understandable. It happens, and we're not going to be banning everyone who goes off the deep end once in a while, and particularly not when they realize it and apologize. There are three ways in which this becomes a much larger problem:

1. The member who makes a habit of it;
2. When they turn into feuds that spill over into other threads, and
3. When others respond in kind, and the whole thread is derailed.

 

[Hoot Crawford]

Well, it seems to me that a few posters try to incite personal attacks. They apparently count that as a "win". That's why I use the ignore feature.

 

[Faye Fox]

Well, it seems to me that a few posters try to incite personal attacks. They apparently count that as a "win". That's why I use the ignore feature.

Sorry Hoot! I didn't mean for my saying you are a hoot, as a personal attack on your good name.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

Well, it seems to me that a few posters try to incite personal attacks. They apparently count that as a "win". That's why I use the ignore feature.

Isn't that the truth? And I usually take the bait until I realize I'm part of the problem. I used to wonder what motivated people to be so annoying but apparently they are just AH's.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

Okay speaking out of turn here, as I must have missed the fuss. But,are these people new members?
We have had many new members and sometimes, they are just looking for the political side of things in Forums.
If it is old time members, a bit more understanding and perhaps moving on to another topic would be beneficial.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Please read this page on Personal Attacks. It is not a link that takes you off this site; it's in our help pages.

I can't think of anything more that I could say here that I haven't already said there. We fully understand that some parts of the forum, namely the political section, will sometimes stir members up to the point where they might address their frustrations directly to another member in the form of a personal attack. That's not okay, but it's understandable. It happens, and we're not going to be banning everyone who goes off the deep end once in a while, and particularly not when they realize it and apologize. There are three ways in which this becomes a much larger problem:

1. The member who makes a habit of it;
2. When they turn into feuds that spill over into other threads, and
3. When others respond in kind, and the whole thread is derailed.

Goodness. I seem to be able to derail a thread without personal attacks.
; )
The one who tells the truth but keeps referring to Trump as First felon is so annoying to me. We know his opinion and his supposed truthfulness but the incessant repetition....Isn't calling a person an insulting name over and over a personal attack?

 

[John Walker]

The one who tells the truth but keeps referring to Trump as First felon is so annoying to me. We know his opinion and his supposed truthfulness but the incessant repetition....Isn't calling a person an insulting name over and over a personal attack?

I don't care what he thinks about Trump, but his constant abusive attacks wishing confusion on members of this forum should not be allowed.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

The thing with the personal attacks that really bothers me is the attitude that they can say anything about other people and get away with it. It is the same thing as a person of some minority group who commits crimes, and then when they get the same punishment as anyone else would get, they say it was done to them because they are a minority.

There are people here who think they can say anything rude and not be banned because they are in a political minority in this forum, but if anyone says anything about those personal attacks, then that person is the one who is made to apologize.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

The thing with the personal attacks that really bothers me is the attitude that they can say anything about other people and get away with it. It is the same thing as a person of some minority group who commits crimes, and then when they get the same punishment as anyone else would get, they say it was done to them because they are a minority.

There are people here who think they can say anything rude and not be banned because they are in a political minority in this forum, but if anyone says anything about those personal attacks, then that person is the one who is made to apologize.

The ability to apologize is missing in some people. Lack of remorse is what distinguishes the riff-raff.

 

[Ken Anderson]

There are people here who think they can say anything rude and not be banned because they are in a political minority in this forum, but if anyone says anything about those personal attacks, then that person is the one who is made to apologize.

This occurs because, even though members of this forum are all over the political spectrum, those on the left generally speak of it as a conservative forum because we allow conservatives to have a voice, whereas the more leftist forums do not. With this mindset, when someone engages in personal attacks in the political sections of the forum, there will be those on their side of the political spectrum who will be convinced they were banned because of their politics, and then we simply replace threads hijacked by personal attacks with threads hijacked by accusations of bias.

Interestingly, in the last iteration of the forum, an active member of the forum went off the deep end after a reprimand and ended up being banned because she was convinced that I was attacking her because of her opinions, despite the fact that I mostly agreed with her opinions.