ORIGINAL: Hotburn76
ORIGINAL: ranger56528
Back to main topic now. FORUM BEHAVIOR
Work sucks! Go in for twelve hours and you miss five pages of fun! Hard to talk bad about the forum behavior when you all got along like a good group of high school kids! Looks like it was a good time last night! I think that it also proves that if you interject in somewhat of an intelligent conversations with each other we can have a great time, last night is Proof of that! The only time when there is problems is when someone pushes our easy button or when someone post with aggressive confrontation to disagree and that usually leads to bad times. Like already said, last night is a good example of the good times people can have on here!
I agree that some people can sometimes push your buttons to get you going, but when we get into personal attacks, that is not good for the sport of crossbows or this forum. Just like I said in the opening thread:
People you do not need to attack a person for making a personal opinion public. If you feel that opinion is incorrect, then disprove it with what you feel is the truth. Support it with data if you can. Everyone has or will have different opinions from the next one in line. If you feel you have to attack something, attack the statement, not the person. Free exchange of opinions and statements only makes a forum a better place.
Tuffbroadhead about your comment above:
... People get mad and quit posting or coming here just because somebody gets on their back, all I was say is dont let that crap get to you, and dont let those people run you off........
I do not know about you, but my participation in a forum (as well as I bet most people) is for enjoyment and learn. Think about it in a new persons' perspective, would you want to go to a site to learn if there is all that bickering and personal attacks. My time is limited and will not waste it going to a forum that is not enjoyable. That is my opinion, but I bet many people feel the same.
Free flowing thoughts, ideas and opinions (even if you do not agree with them)make a forum a great place to learn. If an opinion is flawed, then prove that with data to back up your opinion on why the OPINION is flawed. People are smart enough to sift through all the babble to see what is right and what is incorrect. But personal attacks will only turn people away.
I am lucky, I have been hunting with crossbows for over 25 years in an area that it is legal and feels that it always has been. I have been involved (although a minor role) in helping different people in getting crossbows accepted, wither it just be at an archery club, or State rules and regulations. Educated banter will do alot more for this sport, then any of the attacks that these trolls or trouble making posts try to accomplish.
If you want the forum and the sport of crossbows to grow, then we must decide to not participate in personal attack (rise above the other people) but continue to provide the truth for people to learn. We can also police the forum ourselves, if we see a personal attack, step in right away and tell them that personal attacks are not accepted on this site. Stop it before it balloons. People will try to defend themselves against a personal attack and I do not blame them for wanting to.