First I would like to thank you for volunteering to moderate these threads. As someone who has moderated message boards before I personally know just how much it stinks being constantly called by people bickering and making things personal.
Personally I think the more you try to define what is personal the more problems and complaints you will have to deal with.
People need to grow up . This is an open thread if you are not mature enough to handle open discussion I would suggest you not read open threads .
Be civil , after all most of you profess to be Christians. If you can not be civil with one another the rest of the world will see you as a hypocrite.
When some one does not agree with you it does not mean that they hate you personally. If you are so insecure with your own faith or your own person that you can not take any sort of criticism you probably should not be participating in these type of discussions.
If you feel the need to constantly call the moderator it’s my humble opinion that maybe you are not mature enough participate in these discussions .
People need to grow up . This is an open thread if you are not mature enough to handle open discussion I would suggest you not read open threads .
Be civil , after all most of you profess to be Christians. If you can not be civil with one another the rest of the world will see you as a hypocrite.
When some one does not agree with you it does not mean that they hate you personally. If you are so insecure with your own faith or your own person that you can not take any sort of criticism you probably should not be participating in these type of discussions.
If you feel the need to constantly call the moderator it’s my humble opinion that maybe you are not mature enough participate in these discussions .
INDEED. WELL PUT.
THX.
As much as I loathe returning to this thread I don’t think there’s an issue with any particular person not agreeing with the beliefs of another.
Suppose you are all rastafarians and while addressing you I write “rastafarians are idiots”. That’s not a disagreement, that’s an attack and it’s an attack on the people I’m addressing... and every other rastafarian.
Suppose I wrote “people with “i” in their screen names are goobers”. How is that not “making it personal” to sitetest, Quix and the Religion Moderator?
The problem here is that most of the issues that divide us are seen as doctrines of satan by people on the other side and it’s not much of a stretch to go from “what you believe is diabolical” to “how’s that whole minion of satan thing working out for you?”
I believe the present “making it personal” rule serves to enhance the “more heat than light” tactic because it shelters, under a legal fiction, posts that are intended to inflame by design.
Preach it....