NOTE: I didn't write this to make people angry, so please don't read it as though I did, I just wrote it to Try and show my opinion on some touchy matters
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Originally Posted by
M. Krass
I've been on these forums since the second day they were live and used the old forums before that. I have not once posted a watered-down version of anything and I certainly don't go out of my way to placate people. If you take the time to construct intelligent, thoughtful arguments, there is nothing to 'flame', simply put.
Is ChiefDelphi too sensitive? We largely close threads that have no demonstrated useful purpose and did that here. In response, the original poster says that we need to toughen up and deal with things better? I think a quick glance into a mirror may be appropriate.
I have ... numerous times
. Those of you who haven't had to do that haven't
because you have been here since the beginning, People see eleven bars of positive rep and say to themselves "Wow, they are a tank, what can my 6 negative rep points do?". So you guys pretty much have nothing to fear on this forum.
I assure you that Doug (pyro) was not trying to aggravate anybody with that post, and he was in fact just trying to make friends in an unfamiliar place by posting a thread about a subject that he thought he would have similar opinions on as a lot of other people. This much is obvious... and If Someone cannot see this, then they are in fact "thin skinned".
Or maybe they just want to reprimand someone on the forum so that they can get good rep points for doing it... either way... It is something that should be changed, because I don't care what anybody says... everything is political, even if it is rooted in GP.
In real life... There is no Negative rep, you can't close a person's Ideas like you can a thread, and you DO have to learn to live with Ideals that may be different than your own. That's what a lot of us (me included) on chiefdelphi have to learn to deal with, whether we like it or not.
And once more... If you have a problem with this post, please take it up with my inbox and NOT my rep box.
I thought about this quite a bit... And it is at least 50% intelligent