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Originally posted by Ump20
I have noticed that from time to time on umpire discussion boards and LISTSERVS it is common practice to use personal attack as a method of responding to "fuzzy thinking". Of course some of this frustration is borne out of past conflicts that the two parties (otherwise known as umpire kinfolk) have had either here or elsewhere. Respectful disagreement is sometimes lacking. If you are new to this group or umpiring on the Internet in general I would simply suggest you "ignore" those posts or those parts therein that are attacks.
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Good advice, Jim, but on this board there is also another alternative for any registered poster. If you come across a post which you believe to be a personal attack, whether on you or any other poster, you may email the board Moderator at
[email protected] and he will examine the offending post and take what action (if any) he deems necessary. To make his task easier, please quote the thread or post ID's as they appear in the URL shown in the Address box of your browser. For example, the URL of this particular post is
http://www.officialforum.com/newrepl...y&postid=16269. This can be found by hovering the mouse over the "Quote" option at the bottom of the post and reading the resulting URL from the activity bar on the bottom of the browser, OR by clicking on "Quote" and reading the contents of the Address bar on your browser from the subsequent Reply window.
BTW, there are those who believe that poking fun at another poster is acceptable. IOW, such posters contend that as long as they use humour to ridicule another poster there can be no harm and no foul. That is clearly a false premise, especially if you happen to be the person being ridiculed. I find the best measure of acceptability in personal content is whether or not I would personally be offended if the object of that humour were me. That is not to say that we cannot enjoy
any humour on this board. It's just that I believe as fellow officials we ought always to be especially careful that our humour isn't at a colleague's expense. We've all been on the receiving end of "
Jump up and down, Blue, yer eyes are stuck" or similar, and can appreciate the humour in that. I venture that none of us would find it funny to be labelled a liar, a fraud or a cheat, no matter how much humour was applied in conveying the message.
Cheers,
[Edited by Warren Willson on Mar 18th, 2001 at 05:59 PM]