There is a big difference between expressing an opinion and verbally attacking another member of our comunity. I am a strong supporter of our 1st Amendment Rights and am grateful that WaccoBB supports them as well. Even so, I see no point in tolerating rudeness. Someone who viciously baits, slanders or attacks another should not be encouraged. In this case, the "ignore" option is very useful.
-ALW
Zeno Swijtink
12-30-2007, 08:50 PM
There is a big difference between expressing an opinion and verbally attacking another member of our comunity. I am a strong supporter of our 1st Amendment Rights and am grateful that WaccoBB supports them as well. Even so, I see no point in tolerating rudeness. Someone who viciously baits, slanders or attacks another should not be encouraged. In this case, the "ignore" option is very useful.
-ALW
The Ignore option is compatible with Free Speech and does not mean banning whoever you may think to be obnoxious.
OrchardDweller
01-01-2008, 03:32 PM
There is a big difference between expressing an opinion and verbally attacking another member of our comunity. I am a strong supporter of our 1st Amendment Rights and am grateful that WaccoBB supports them as well. Even so, I see no point in tolerating rudeness. Someone who viciously baits, slanders or attacks another should not be encouraged. In this case, the "ignore" option is very useful.
-ALW
I share your opinion. I personally know people who don't post here anymore because they get attacked by the same group of people over and over. This group considers themselves "liberal", but what is so liberal about creating an environment where people are afraid to speak freely. How can one be progressive when one is so closed off to any idea that is different from what one already thinks . There seems to be a lot of effort made to intimidate people into a certain line of thinking.
It's a pity, that instead of being a place where people can get together and share information, learn from each other and grow as a community, this forum is being used by some to divide us.
shellebelle
01-01-2008, 04:57 PM
I find this rather contradictory.
"a place where people can get together and share information, learn from each other and grow as a community" Okay I like the sounds of this -idealistic but sweet. What about those though who just want to post for sake of conversation not enrichment?
Now this I don't know - leaves me wondering:
"I personally know people who don't post here anymore because they get attacked by the same group of people over and over." Okay so what did they post that was enriching (per your share information, learn from each other and grow as a community)? And did they post so it enriched or enraged? And here I say etc since so many more questions could follow.
What is enriching to one is enraging to another and vice versa. So really isn't tolerance of opinion or thought truly what you are desiring? With or without knowledge? With or without being right and the greater potential being the right is wrong?
Now this well just pisses me off:
"This group considers themselves "liberal", but what is so liberal about creating an environment where people are afraid to speak freely." Liberal says who - are you not defining 5000 people? What makes you believe that I (who has never met you to my knowledge) is liberal or conservative? What makes you think that such a label would be appropriate or even welcomed? I personally hate such limitations.
I appreciate the ignore button. It allows me to disagree quietly, personally and allows me to choose to not participate with a poster. I always have the choice to not participate so do you so kudos to your friends/peoples who have chosen to not participate. They made a choice that was right for them.
Oh yeh a just a note "learn from each other and grow" - wouldn't staying and reading; even studying the "attacks" have pushed the comfort level and thus manifested growth? And maybe possibly would perspective not changed through growth?
Abraham Hicks Quotation I think applies:
If you have a subject that makes you uncomfortable when you think about it, it means there is strong desire related to it. Which means it really, really, really matters. So finding a way to think about it and feel good is your work. But it is equally effective to think about anything else and feel good, and let it in. You don't have to think about money in order to let in money. You just can't think about lack of money, to let in money
Excerpted from a workshop in North Los Angeles, CA on Monday, August 13th, 2001
All Is Well
And this one
Physical man gets into an uncomfortable place when he concludes, "I and those like me have come to the right decisions, and everybody that's living outside of these right decisions is wrong." And then he spends his life pushing against all those "wrong" decisions and cutting himself off from the Life Force that would help him have joy in his, what he concludes to be, right decisions. There is no one right path. There are endless paths, and the differences in the paths are what make them more and more, and more, perfect. The same old path no longer serves.
Excerpted from a workshop in Orlando, FL on Saturday, February 3rd, 2001
All Is Well