As I venture around the board, on different forums and different threads, there is a lot of angry people complaining about how "hot" it gets in here. Hey, this is politics, you come posting in here you better bring your A game, and a stiff drink doesn't hurt. Folks who have gotten familiar with me know that I may flame you in here, but I'll be the first to congradulate you on your trophy buck in another forum. So I offer the following advice:
1. Politics is not a nice subject, and it shouldn't be. If you can't stand the heat....well you know the rest.
2. Keep the arguments in it's place. Draggin ill feelings to other threads and forums does a dis-service to those posters in that thread and forum.
3. Stop the back and forth fighting, it's boring, it hijacks the thread, and causes your crediblity to be called into question. I'm talking about the same posters always arguing in all different threads, about the same stuff.
4. Learn to disengage. If you constantly feel that a posters post are stupid and not worth reading, just hit the ignore tab. There are a couple of regulars here that quite obviously just like to hear themselves talk, and argue for the sake of getting attention, just ignore them if it bothers you.
5. Name calling. A thread is pretty much shot once the name calling begins. You can question motives, statements, truthfulness, and even intellectual capacity, but once you start name calling, you've lost the battle. Name calling, slurring, and threatening usaully means that the recipiant of such has gained the upperhand.
6. No proof needed. Most people on this board are smart enough to determine what is accurate and what is not. The call for documentation is ridiculas. This is an opinion forum, given freely, and many times unsubstainiated. Elaborate yes, document no.
7. Keep your prospective. You are sitting at a computer talking with people all over the country that you don't even know. Deep down inside, do you really care what any of us thinks? If your so upset you have a problem, shut off your computer. Nothing on this board ever effects my personal and family life in any way.
8. Play fair. Pulling quotes out of context is reconized by all on the board. This is a game for the petty. It's ok to quote, but dishonest to do it out of context.
9. Grow a pair. Don't be afraid to say what you think. Appeasement is a tool of the weak. I disagree with badshotbob at times, but you can always hear the passion in his post, I respect that. We don't have to get along, besides, what's the fun in consensus?
10. Seemed like there should be a ten since there was a nine.
Maybe I'm all wet, I don't know, just my 2 cents. If you disagree, then bring it, I can handle it.
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