"If you're *un*lucky of course, that's the moment when you find out one of the former brawlers has stalked you to your hiding place..."
So you killfile them. Ah, but that's the problem with LJ, it is /not/ a proper discussion forum, which would have facilities to 'killfile' (Usenet term; means "I don't want to see that person's posts/comments" but other people can still see them) and proper threading, not a master post with comments, but people still still to use it as a general discussion forum because that's where everyone else is.
As for "right speech" as described, it sounds like normal rules for communication to me. The trouble is that those of us who do use that form (and no, I'm not perfect at it) get derailed by those who do use strawmen, ad hominem attacks, downright insults, etc., and unless we all make a pact to talk only to each other we have no control over the others. And sometimes the strawmen are really dangerous and do need to be countered.
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Date: 2009-06-01 11:11 am (UTC)So you killfile them. Ah, but that's the problem with LJ, it is /not/ a proper discussion forum, which would have facilities to 'killfile' (Usenet term; means "I don't want to see that person's posts/comments" but other people can still see them) and proper threading, not a master post with comments, but people still still to use it as a general discussion forum because that's where everyone else is.
As for "right speech" as described, it sounds like normal rules for communication to me. The trouble is that those of us who do use that form (and no, I'm not perfect at it) get derailed by those who do use strawmen, ad hominem attacks, downright insults, etc., and unless we all make a pact to talk only to each other we have no control over the others. And sometimes the strawmen are really dangerous and do need to be countered.