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Calum:

quote:Originally posted by dbl221:
Call me wacky but I think we should be polite in our posts....strive for intelligent well written post...like all good writing you must consider your audience.  Beyond that I have no thoughts.
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i just read over my last post and it sounds like i am advocating nastiness when writing online. I'm not. I default to nice, until somebody says something to piss me off...

I agree with dbl221 as quoted above totally, but i do reckon that if something is said that could be taken in more ways than one, that people shouldn't just assume the worst!

I wasn't trying to be negative in my video editing posts at all! i was just trying to promote discussion, i mean there's about 10,000 posters on that forum, and nobody had started a Linux forum yet, i expected *tons* of people to reply, but they all steered away from it as if my topic had the black death!

Anyway, as i said, i wasn't trying to be offensive to those guys in their nice ivory towers, but they took offense anyway, since they smelt i wasn't one of them.

MxCl:
You have to be really careful when writing things online since without tone of voice or body language it's very easy for sentences to misinterpreted. This is why smilies were invented I imagine. For example a line of sarcasm such as,

you're such a fool

sounds harsh but,

you're such a fool   ;)  

solves that problem.

The problem with my post is that I sound patronising. Not intended! It's hard when you're the newcomer, but unfortunately Calum mate, you did sound aggressive in some of your posts. Luckily there weren't too many juveniles in that crowd..

[ March 14, 2002: Message edited by: MxCl ]

Calum:
oh yeah? is that so?

well,   :mad:  FUCK YOU!!!!  :mad:  

(hee hee hee hee!   :D    :D    :D    :D   )
  ;)    :D

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