I am certainly harsh, or even dismissive, of what I consider lazy or factually refutable opinions. Example: Such as the one you express above (and I hasten to say, given how sensitive some of you are, I mean this in a gentle way -more on this below).
I can see why this facet of mine would be irritating. But at the end of the day, the world, and the Internet, is full of irritating people. It seems to me that the best option is to listen to and think about what the other poster is saying, and see if he has a point, and just ignore anything else stemming from manner if it is unpleasant.
Ignoring is pretty easy to do, at least for me. I ignore one poster here completely and easily. I do so because I had tried debating last year and realized it had absolutely no redeeming value at any level, including for the board experience. I do admit my comments yesterday about the Internet voices of some people, which I really thought was all in good humor, was probably ill-advised because of some temperaments here. I regret that.
Coming back to your arguing "last few months" claim here, your join date is 12 years ago and you find only the last few months toxic? Really? Multiple people have had far more bitter arguments here than what happened yesterday. Multiple people have left the board because of arguments with specific posters over the years. Butsy left 7-8 years ago. Exlund left a few years back. JMatchett left last year. MJL was involved in many of them (Read the comments on the blog here if you want to refresh your memory about acrimony: https://my.hockeybuzz.com...ser_id=35215&post_id=2553) but only 1 of the posters above left because of him. There are long running feuds even now, such as between Claudefather and SchennBros.
Some amount of snippiness and even nastiness is part and parcel of a board like this. It is quite another however if a poster utterly and completely manufactures a claim that someone actually used the death of a parent to insult the poster. And a towering intellect actually takes that at face value and quotes it (which is how I first became aware of it).
I was shocked. It needed to be refuted thoroughly. Hopefully I won't have to do this again. I am moving on.
- PT21
You don't ignore me. You make reference to me in posts on a regular basis. The claim of using the information given on my family situation to try and attack me personally is not manufactured. The evidence is clear. You claim you're not trying to be insulting then follow with a paragraph of direct personal insults.
Here is what you're missing. Argue and debate on hockey until you're blue in the face. It's a hockey website. The very fact that you get so personal to use the death of parent and information related to that to try and attack someone is appalling and offensive to any human being with any decency and sense. You have gone over the edge many times. All under the guise of caring for someone's well being.You aren't fooling anyone. You have a long track record and history of nasty and inappropriate personal insults directed at others. If you think someone has a problem, you don't respond as you do and tell someone they need a psychiatric evaluation. Who are you to do that? The lack of self awareness of not realizing how improper you have been on this and many occasions is very troubling. I'm stubborn and argumentative but I keep my replies hockey related. You cross the line repeatedly.
