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[LilacTree]

On 3/3/2014 occasional rain said:

On 3/3/2014 Deb1010again said:

On 3/3/2014 occasional rain said:

On 3/3/2014 Deb1010again said:

On 3/3/2014 occasional rain said:

That thread was a thinly veiled attempt to disparage fellow posters whose views didn't agree with the views of the OP. It morphed into a whine about family members, employers, and anyone else posters disliked.

Ford, I think we found our culprit. LOL

Good example of posters who disparage fellow posters who disagree with their personal view.

Just FYI, I have never and will never report a post or thread as inappropriate because I strongly believe in free speech.

In my first post on this thread which precedes your incursion says "people here can be nice and supportive." You called my original thread a "thinly veiled attempt to disparage fellow posters"... how is that not a personal slight. You are guessing at my motivation without any supporting evidence.

I spend a considerable amount of time on these boards. I wouldn't do that if I didn't like the people here and generally enjoy my time here.

I'm not denying that you like some posters nor did I mean that you were disparaging all posters, just the ones whose views you dislike.

You asked in your thread about handling sanctimonious people but included your method of dealing with them. So, what exactly was the purpose of the thread? You weren't looking for help/opinions since you answered the question yourself.

The very fact that it was about sanctimonious people was an invitation for posters to rant about disliked others and they came out in numbers. Now your trying to play innocent or obtuse, take your pick.

OR . . . people told their personal stories which is also what this BB is about.

A lot of OPs are framed in exactly the same way and elicit the exact same responses of personal experience. Unfortunately, with some, any post is open territory for snarky and mean remarks.

[sophiamarie]

Why does anyone have to save a thread, unless there is some important information that they can't get any other way. What am I missing here???

[esmerelda]

On 3/3/2014 occasional rain said:

I'm not denying that you like some posters nor did I mean that you were disparaging all posters, just the ones whose views you dislike.

You asked in your thread about handling sanctimonious people but included your method of dealing with them. So, what exactly was the purpose of the thread? You weren't looking for help/opinions since you answered the question yourself.

The very fact that it was about sanctimonious people was an invitation for posters to rant about disliked others and they came out in numbers. Now your trying to play innocent or obtuse, take your pick.

I prefer, when a poster starts a thread asking something, that they give their answer first. Then others give theirs.

So that criticism, IMO, is unfair.

[reese2]

I didn't read the thread because I thought it might end up the way it apparently did. And I have no idea why I'm about to do this because she and I rarely agree, but I believe OR that she had no hand in getting the thread poofed.

Agree or not, I don't view her as a person who tells people what they want to hear, or hits the report button to get a thread or post(s) poofed. She strikes me as the kind of person who believes strongly in what she feels and thinks and wants people to know her opinion. There are several people here I feel that way about.

I just don't think those kinds of threads ever end well. Ford, I'm glad you got to keep it. I think sometimes we need to move quickly around here!

ETA that I also appreciate when the OP gives their own opinion. It seems less of a baiting thread to me that way.

[LilacTree]

On 3/3/2014 sophiamarie said:

Why does anyone have to save a thread, unless there is some important information that they can't get any other way. What am I missing here???

I guess what you're missing is that sometimes people say wonderful insightful things that one doesn't want to forget. Maybe that doesn't happen for you, but it does for me.

[tansy]

On 3/3/2014 reese ~ said:

I didn't read the thread because I thought it might end up the way it apparently did. And I have no idea why I'm about to do this because she and I rarely agree, but I believe OR that she had no hand in getting the thread poofed.

Agree or not, I don't view her as a person who tells people what they want to hear, or hits the report button to get a thread or post(s) poofed. She strikes me as the kind of person who believes strongly in what she feels and thinks and wants people to know her opinion. There are several people here I feel that way about.

I just don't think those kinds of threads ever end well. Ford, I'm glad you got to keep it. I think sometimes we need to move quickly around here!

ITA with your entire post.

[esmerelda]

...and often, apparently.

[reese2]

Tansy, I often agree with you!

[LilacTree]

On 3/3/2014 reese ~ said:

I didn't read the thread because I thought it might end up the way it apparently did. And I have no idea why I'm about to do this because she and I rarely agree, but I believe OR that she had no hand in getting the thread poofed.

Agree or not, I don't view her as a person who tells people what they want to hear, or hits the report button to get a thread or post(s) poofed. She strikes me as the kind of person who believes strongly in what she feels and thinks and wants people to know her opinion. There are several people here I feel that way about.

I just don't think those kinds of threads ever end well. Ford, I'm glad you got to keep it. I think sometimes we need to move quickly around here!

Well I have copied several discussions from this BB that have impressed me. There are individuals here who are very intelligent and sometimes have very wise things to say. I am a reader and a writer, and I always appreciate learning. You can be sure they are in my private journals which I hope will be helpful for my children and grandchildren someday.

If we didn't have ideas and writers who expressed them, how could we ever begin to learn?

Half the time I don't even look at the username, BTW, I read the messages and if they strike me as something I want to keep, I keep them.

[sophiamarie]

Oh well - since I don't know who anyone is talking about - I guess I'll go off and play someplace else.