(September 2, 2011 at 5:57 pm)Cinjin Wrote:(September 2, 2011 at 5:03 pm)bozo Wrote: I agree about having a debate like this. However, if you started calling me names, it wouldn't worry or upset me in the slightest and you would, no doubt, expect me to reply in kind.
So, what's the problem?
the occasional burn between two willing participants is fine in my opinion. In the recent past, Frodo and I have often jabbed at each other, even insulting each other's intelligence, but we seem to have a mutual understanding of what is acceptable. Name calling and the gang-up mentality however is damaging the reputation of these forums and it is creating an environment of hostility that leads members and future members to find other venues of debate and conversation.
What you ( and possibly Frodo ) find acceptable is subjective to you both.
I have been a member here pretty much from when it started and I left for a while because I felt it was becoming authoritarian. I returned and found it less so and all the better for it.
I might choose to leave again, who knows? You take a wrong path, in my opinion, if you seek to control how debate is conducted here.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
