Published on 12, July, 2020
I don't know about others, but I'm getting a little concerned that the arguments will put off new members.
Quite often people join and then disappear quite quickly.
I've been involved in these myself on occasion, so I'm not innocent.
However, maybe the mods could create a section where these potentially contentious threads could be placed that had a heading like NSFW (a new one on me but it seems to be well known).
If a seemingly innocuous thread then turns into a constant argument, perhaps it could be moved to there.
It's sometimes interraction between older males and older females (or non binary etc) and comes down to very different relationship/*ex points of view but can of course stem from any subject and any set of contributors.
I think it happens more often than it once did, and I've not been here a year yet.
What I see, probably due to my ultra-logical autistic brain, is not primarily the message - though I am vehemently against any form of prejudice - is that the statement does not make grammatical sense. To be grammatical and logical it would have to tie the quoted part in with the -isms and phobias, which is not the case as it stands as there is no real verb. What would work is something like: "We can disagree and still be friends", does not apply if you subscribe to racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia."
Hi Ree,
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Kind regards,
Clare Mod
you may personally feel that way. But if 'not being friends' spills over into vitriolic personal attacks it is a problem for the forum.
Also people need to acknowledge is just because they personally view something as an 'obia' or 'ism' it doesn't mean others (or mods) will. People don't get to abuse other forum users because they are frustrated that mods do not agree with their definitions of what is and isn't banned material.