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Originally Posted by Splitter
We are over complicating this.
Just write your posts thinking that you are facing the other person and that they could punch you in the mouth for being rude  .
................ People feel anonymous and safe sitting behind their keyboard. They will say things on the internet that they would never say to your face....
I swear, when it suddenly became socially unacceptable to punch an idiot in the mouth society took a turn for the worse .
Splitter |
Splitter, with respect I think your missing the point. You and I might post as you describe, some others never will and that is what is causing a lot of the problems. Some will go along with it and some will not. How can we persuade them? Some of them actually enjoy being controversial and arrogant and its too difficult to police.
The real downside is we lose sight of Olegs views and he of ours. That's why I tried to think of a way to manage the problem by structuring it in a way that keeps the important stuff separated from the dross. We'll alway get the dross but we and Oleg could pick out what we need and leave Olegs update posts clean.
Anyway I doubt if Oleg would be willing to do as I suggest but it was an idea.
"Maybe it would also be courteous that before posting questions to at least try and do a forum search to see if the subject has already been addressed."
Actually I found the Search facility doesn't always turn up the answer. Better to search through Oleg's answers (as I was told how to do). But an FAQ as someone suggested would be just great.