[ksen]

I’ve had this happen to me, and I was wondering if it has happened to anyone else here.

Have you ever found yourself on a different thread and you are arguing or taking up for one side of an issue when one of our fellow HH’ers chimes in on the competing side of the argument? I’ve had that happen, and when normally I would fire off a shot I find myself restrained and responding kindly, well more kindly, than I normally would have. I think that is a great side effect to threads like these.

Too bad more people wouldn’t get involved in the social threads together so that way the flame wars wouldn’t get quite so heated since people would actually “know” other posters.

Well, that’s my two cent, completely off the subject thought. ;^)

-Kevin

[Corin Stormhands]

Have you ever found yourself on a different thread and you are arguing or taking up for one side of an issue when one of our fellow HH’ers chimes in on the competing side of the argument?

Yup. Over in the religion wars, I'm on the opposite side from several Hobbits. We're nice to each other and we all agree we don't like the nasty posters on either side...

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh I absolutely agree... I have had it happen too... Of course, I rarely get into actual flame wars. But if I disagree, I am much more likely to seriously consider their point of view if I know them from here.

I have said... Hey - That is a hobbit, not just a crazy person! - What got him so ticked off?

We should be tempered all the time of course, but the social threads do help to personalize the relationships. It creates a peer group instead of a bunch of individuals, a peer group that will have to answer to each other for things we say, because we are not so anonymous anymore. And that is a good thing!

[HairOfTheDog]

Here is a topical example! - Though I have never posted about it, I am/was not a big fan of home-schooling. But with reasonable people here really into it, how can I not think it is a reasonable idea?