Posted by verne on December 13, 2006, at 19:23:58
In reply to Re: life, posted by sunnydays on December 13, 2006, at 17:55:55
Which is better a Hugfest or a Blockfest? Does it have to be one or the other?
Is there no middle ground between hollow cyber hugs and genuine reaching out that tries to bridge the gap between online and real life? One is called support, the other, incivility.
Earlier, we saw that apologizing for starting a thread that "got ugly" is praised with no regard for the poster who alledgedly made it *ugly*. The poster wasn't mentioned by name but the implication was obvious.
I would argue that blaming someone for turning a thread "ugly" is uncivil. Yet, as I said, this observation was praised. Cloak criticism of another poster in a fluffy apology and it's allowed. Make one misstep while being real and you're blocked.
Sometimes fluffy isn't always good, nice, or even real, and scruffy isn't always the mean "troll". Some of the realest posters have been called "trolls". Long gone yet remembered in song.
No offense to Fluffy or Scruffy.
Verne
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