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Message: [QUOTE="JS, post: 2552058, member: 6"] All depends on how one does it. People who point out that something is inaccurate or false, and why, do everyone a service and make for a better board. Some people are good at it. Others may be coming from a different place. The key is to deliver one's critique civilly. "Dumb" and "silly" are pejoratives that can be wielded in an uncivil manner amounting to a personal attack. Whatever one may be thinking, if uncivil "hit words" or personal ridicule are actually used in reference to another's post it's going to attract our attention. We've had individuals who were masters at thinly disguising their personal attacks as "attacking the post, not the poster." Does anyone think "Stop putting up moronic posts" complies with the maxim? If righting wrongs means correcting unsupported, inaccurate statements by supplying the facts, if it means supplying a more realistic perspective, then the people who feel thus obligated should have at it. There are people, though, who enjoy confrontation. People who enjoy putting other people down. People who really would like to run those whose attitudes they don't like off the board. People like that (a small but sometimes prominent minority) don't mind if their aggressiveness intimidates some lurkers or visitors into not posting, or provokes others into pissing matches, either way to the detriment of the board. We do mind. Everybody can have at it. Set the record straight. Have a vigorous debate. Be fervent, to use a word seen somewhere in this thread. But if one's aggressive methods cross into incivility, we will take steps of our choosing to remedy the situation. Policing the board to make it work, as nearly as possible, for everyone is our job, not the job of self-appointed Posting Police. We won't tolerate vigilantism. [/QUOTE]

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