I enjoy intelligent debate and I can see that sometimes there's a fine line between, saying exactly what one really feels and being insulting. It depends on which side your viewing the comment from.
e.g. if someone reviews a venue and it comes off less favourably, the venue manager 'might' see that as a personal attack.
Someone else might see it as very informative.
In an ideal world the venue manager would come on here and either defend his case, explaining the situation and if need be, take onboard the criticism and rectify the problems.
Then report back again and receive his well deserved pat on the back!
Back to the heated forum debates....Unfortunately, it takes a degree of intelligence and education to be able to articulate exactly what one means, without causing too much offence and the same applies to being able to comprehend what 'other's' mean in such debates.
Sadly, we have a very wide spectrum of intellect on here
The other thing is, we all appreciate wit but not always in the same form...Some people's idea of 'wit' comes in the form of short outbursts of profanities and playful insults to one's mates...other people hate it!!
We all react differently!
Some people get riled up and take the bait, some choose to roll their eyes at it and move on.
My position 'IS' a difficult one, as I don't feel I would be justified in imposing 'my own' set of values on this forum, I think it would be extremely narrow minded but if given direction and informed that people have become offended, I WILL do something about it!
The saddest thing is when people just leave or stop posting, without even telling us they've been unhappy about something, we're not mind readers!
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