Posted by noa on April 8, 2003, at 22:09:49
In reply to Lou's response to paxvox's post-LR-8c » paxvox, posted by Lou Pilder on April 8, 2003, at 21:21:22
Lou, I honestly don't think anyone is out to defame you. I think that sometimes disagreements happen, and people get mad and nasty exchanges happen. But I don't think the motivation is defamation.
I think that the frustration we see from all the posters who are asking you not to request so much clarification is not about defamation. It is truly frustration, and wanting the conversation to flow more normally and less like being cross examined in a trial.
Let me clarify one thing--by what I've said here, I mean to express my impressions of others' motivations, and I'm generalizing. I am obviously not a mindreader, so I cannot vouch for every single poster's motivations. But I really believe that on the whole, the motivation is not anything like defamation.
For example, if you notice, there is another set of threads here on this admin board lately, that has nothing to do with you, and which clearly involves a lot of angry and hurt feelings and misunderstandings. But I don't think anyone set out to defame anyone else. Sure, in anger, people said things that hurt others. But I really don't see defamation as driving any of it.
Just my impressions.
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