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Originally posted by BJ Moose
Finally.. some HUMOR!! That's good.. har har har.
It's a free country, I guess. I think WW should be posting on the BOARD.
But this stuff below is hooieee. Discussions can get heated and ACTIVE, and it is anyone's right to disagree, or heck, say the poster is a nimrod. Oooo, nimrod.. it hurts so bad.... pulleeeeze....
WW should be posting because he falls into the special category of posters whose opinions we WANT to read. (regardless if the opinion is "mistaken")
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So, Moose, is it your opinion that ALL "humor" is good? Does that apply even when that alledged "humor" is at someone else's expense? Does that apply even when the person at whose expense the "humor" is made is offended by it? So what if YOU aren't offended. What matters is whether the SUBJECT is offended. It is basic consideration for one's fellow man to avoid knowingly giving offense.
You are correct that it is everyone's right to disagree. You are not correct that it is everyone's right to say "the poster is a nimrod", at least not on this board. Furthermore, even if the board owner/moderator doesn't feel the poster has been personally maligned, there are levels of behaviour that are attainable by ordinary posters that are clearly NOT open to the staff writers here. That's not censorship, it's just a statement of the facts.
The staff writers have to guage every comment, measure every adjective and noun, in order to make their points without offending our employer's customers - YOU. That places constraints on us that you don't share. All I am asking is that the ordinary posters here RESPECT that difference, and cut us some slack in the way they respond. Inflamatory statements cannot be freely dealt with, however innocuous. Is it too much to ask to have the posters dispense with inflammatory statements when dealing with the staff writers? After all, we have to do that when dealing with them! What's good for the goose....
Warren Willson
Freelance Staff Writer, eUmpire.com