Posted by PartlyCloudy on August 4, 2010, at 17:42:58
In reply to Re: Why Is Babble Not Babbling? » PartlyCloudy, posted by sigismund on August 4, 2010, at 15:31:21
> >Yes! And I, for one, do not respond well to requests that appear to be shame-based.
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> PC, let's say you or I were in this situation.
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> Can you imagine explaining to me how I might apologise or vice versa.
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> It's not that we don't care at all. It's just that it's (mostly) inappropriate.Well, first I would want to know what was uncivil about what I had said, because I don't believe that had been pointed out - isn't the relevant FAQ usually referred to in the warning? It seems odd that a phrase has been teased out of an entire post, deemed uncivil, but none of us are told why it's considered so.
And then I would decide whether what I had said might have been construed as being uncivil or not. I might not even decide it was worthy of a response; I might wonder if I was being made an example of, and then I would mentally shrug my shoulders, let the process take its course, and figure out if it was important to me to take a stance or not.
I might decide that it was a molehill that was trying mightily to become a mountain, and that I didn't want to help it along.
But that's me.
How about you?
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