DAD, assuming you are 100% absolutely right and all attacks were completely unfounded, then those who did the attacking are beyond reason, and further discussion of this is pointless.
If there is some justification for those posts, for the intent if not necessarily how they were phrased, then trying to assign relative amounts of blame for misunderstandings and things said out of an emotional response between all involved parties is an exercise in futility and serves no purpose. Therefore, further discussion of this is pointless.
Several people were hurt by things that were said, and I think that was more to do with frustration or misunderstandings than maliciousness on anyone's part. No one is every going to come up with a universally accepted opinion on this (so further discussion is pointless).
PS - Criticism versus Insults
The difference is intent, which can be very hard to judge with no body language, no tone of voice and between people who are communicating in a language they are not necessarily fluent in. Any judgment on what constitutes a valid criticism and what is an insult is therefore going to vary between individual, with no clear black and white boundary.
Last edited by Raze; 05/09/03 02:23 AM.
