Guys, you've got to stop the denigration of others' posts.
Disagree all you want. But don't call another post or poster or their position, "stupid" or "ludicrous" or anything of the sort.
Say you don't understand the logic and politely ask the poster to explain. Say you see the issue differently and present your own logic.
But stop with the bashing of posts and / or posters. It took a while and some unpleasant actions to get that toned down on the NSPR board, but we finally made good progress there. We still have plenty of debate, but the nastiness and rancor are way down, and the quality of the debate is much higher.
We as a Mod team learned from that effort. The primary lesson being that some people are just hard-wired to view an opposing opinion as a personal insult coming from an obviously inferior human being who has equally obvious mental impairments.
We can't fix people who think that way. We can fix what they are able to post on TideFans.
Earlier warnings and reminders haven't worked as well as we would have liked on the Football board. With the season approaching, consider this a last chance reminder.
Debate all you want. Just don't bash. If you can't refrain from that, there will be no further begging....we'll handle it for you.
Disagree all you want. But don't call another post or poster or their position, "stupid" or "ludicrous" or anything of the sort.
Say you don't understand the logic and politely ask the poster to explain. Say you see the issue differently and present your own logic.
But stop with the bashing of posts and / or posters. It took a while and some unpleasant actions to get that toned down on the NSPR board, but we finally made good progress there. We still have plenty of debate, but the nastiness and rancor are way down, and the quality of the debate is much higher.
We as a Mod team learned from that effort. The primary lesson being that some people are just hard-wired to view an opposing opinion as a personal insult coming from an obviously inferior human being who has equally obvious mental impairments.
We can't fix people who think that way. We can fix what they are able to post on TideFans.
Earlier warnings and reminders haven't worked as well as we would have liked on the Football board. With the season approaching, consider this a last chance reminder.
Debate all you want. Just don't bash. If you can't refrain from that, there will be no further begging....we'll handle it for you.
