| Do member spats that result in name calling help the forum? |
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| Benjamin |
 Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:05 am Post subject: Member Disagreements |
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So we all know I'm Not Warrenn Buffett and Grimreaper do not see eye to eye and when you truly believe your right it can turn into name calling and insulting one anothers intelligence.
My question to you, eInvesting members, is does this add anything positive to the forums?
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| vetelmo |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:16 am Post subject: |
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If it's trash talk about different ideas, thats ok in my eyes but when you resort to name calling and attacking each other just because you disagree is sensless and childish.
Cant you agree that you disagree?
And no it's not positve for the environment/culture of the message boards.
Ben maybe you should think about getting a moderator or two if you dont want to have to contue to babysit, lol. |
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| lostsoul01 |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:27 am Post subject: |
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While I do think it doesn't hurt things for those people who are already here, here's the reason I vote no...
On other forums I read, there seems to be so much trash talking that pretty much if you ask any question, you are flamed because that question has already been asked. Therefore you are stupid, lazy, or simply asking the same question to cause problems.
Everyone who does post puts at the top of their post, I searched, I looked all over, please don't flame me.
I wonder how many people don't post because of the bad attitudes.
I think an outsider who sees people harrassing each other might feel the same way about posting here. That if they post, they may be harrassed also.
We know that's not what is going on, but do new visitors? |
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| Grimreaper |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:39 am Post subject: Re: Member Disagreements |
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| Benjamin wrote: | So we all know I'm Not Warrenn Buffett and Grimreaper do not see eye to eye and when you truly believe your right it can turn into name calling and insulting one anothers intelligence.
My question to you, eInvesting members, is does this add anything positive to the forums? |
I voted yes! I think it should be a free for all!  If you want to follow somebody around his site and interject with name calling and negative commentary that's fine with me, if you do that to me personally that is, I can handle it, better than it appears yuns guys can and I'm the focus of the constant attacks! bring it oooooon baaaaabeeeee! |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:42 am Post subject: Re: Member Disagreements |
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| Grimreaper wrote: |
I voted yes! I think it should be a free for all! If you want to follow somebody around his site and interject with name calling and negative commentary that's fine with me, if you do that to me personally that is, I can handle it, better than it appears yuns guys can and I'm the focus of the constant attacks! bring it oooooon baaaaabeeeee! |
Well you are the focus, thats for sure. I have seen you both pop in to threads and get it off-topic by moving your debate all over the place. |
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| nelaina |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: |
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yeah, disagreements are fine, but make it productive. follow thru on your challenges rather than trash talking and personally attacking each other.
at first in the stock picker thread i thought it was a good challenge, two different points of view, easily could have been settled with a bet or with them both agreeing that they see things differently, but now its become personal and annoying.
just keep in mind when you are name calling and trash talking the methods of one person, you are generalizing that everyone else who follows those methods are "idiots" or "suck" or whatever. And what works for one person may not work for you, but it just may work for 10 others on here who now dont want to get involved because they see their strategies being attacked
its fine to argue openly, but keep it to the point... |
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| frusnak |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: |
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Our country stands for many freedoms....one of which is speech.
People we all have loved ones who have put their lives on the line and some who gave their lives to quarantee our freedoms.
My concern is that just because some one doesn't go along with a particular belief doesn't give anyone the right to insult this persons intelligence or character. I believe we should all be able to express our opinions here without being run into the groud for it!
Lets all be a little more tolerant of others ideas. |
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| Benjamin |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| Well stated Frusnak...I don't want to impede anyones freedom of speech, but there needs to be a balance between the flow of ideas and getting a little too personal with it. |
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| NCSUPAGE |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| If they're going to insult one another, they should atleast respect everyone else on the site by making their own debate thread where they can argue with one another about issues, but not insult one another as they have been doing. They can have the "We Disagree So We're Arguing Here So As Not To Aggrivate Everyone Else" Thread in the General Non-Investing Discussion and keep it clean and between themselves without pestering the rest of us. |
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| Im Not Warren Buffett |
| Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Member Disagreements |
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| Benjamin wrote: | So we all know I'm Not Warren Buffett and Grimreaper do not see eye to eye and when you truly believe your right it can turn into name calling and insulting one anothers intelligence.
My question to you, eInvesting members, is does this add anything positive to the forums? |
I have a simple solution to it... I'm just not going to talk to Grim. Its a waste of my time as it accomplishes nothing, its not like he will wake up and go "Wow, Warren's right and I'm wrong".
Last thing I'm going to say to him is about the 20% decliners, then I'm done. |
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| vetelmo |
| Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| frusnak wrote: | Our country stands for many freedoms....one of which is speech.
People we all have loved ones who have put their lives on the line and some who gave their lives to quarantee our freedoms.
My concern is that just because some one doesn't go along with a particular belief doesn't give anyone the right to insult this persons intelligence or character. I believe we should all be able to express our opinions here without being run into the groud for it!
Lets all be a little more tolerant of others ideas. |
What he said. |
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| scampf |
| Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:54 am Post subject: |
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I think that personal attacks on ones point of view are ok as long as it is cival. I can disagree with someones ideas without being insulting.
Maybe a good rule of thumb would be, would you speak to this person the same way if you were in the same room with each other? Proximity in most cases require us to be civil. The reason is rudeness could quickly cause another to give you a poke on the jawbone.
On message boards there seems to be little repercussions if one flex's his mental muscle and makes a jab at another.
Maybe a nmoderator should be in charge of reviewing these conversations and when civility is broken give one or the other party a time out suspension.
Anyway, just saying. |
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