Do you feel personally attacked when disagreeing with someone in a forum thread?

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Apparently, people know a lot about everything.

Except for having empathy.

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Pretty disturbing that you think attacks on marginalized people not being tolerated amounts to ā€œcensorshipā€.

Not in your opinion, no. Itā€™s ā€œjust common senseā€. Itā€™s ā€œjust saying what everyone else is thinkingā€. Uh-huh.

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No .

lmao.

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If something is getting flagged like that thereā€™s probably a reason but you can go on pretending like itā€™s some type of bias or whatever when common sense and track records with forums here proves otherwise.

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The forums isnā€™t real life so I donā€™t feel personally attacked, no.

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Oh, oops! Which points out another issue: no tone of voice, body language or facial expression leads to miscommunication as well.

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This from the person who accused LGBTQ people of being predators and groomers.

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See. You jump to attacks. I have not attavked anyone and neither do any of my views.

I mean the second part just kind of proves the other guys point

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Sorry for that time I was rude to you

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When was this? Iā€™m certainly not holding it against you lol.

Apologies if I was rude in return though.

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Itā€™s a wild stance too because itā€™s not just the forums. You canā€™t just go spouting whatever you want at work or in most places of business, either. The same things that get removed and actioned on the forums are also not okay to say in 99% of public spaces and venues in real life.

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Well its definitely a bias lol. To think otherwise wpuld be wild. The forum has a very obvious strong lean and so does blizzard and their rules. As well as what they deem break those rules.

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This is not true. Especially if its actually a public space.

In the real world people have the right to free speech to dictate viewpoints.

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yeah this is a big struggle on forums

i have pretty dry delivery both irl and i think in writing, so i get misinterpreted a lot. and i misinterpret others because its hard to read between the lines. i prefer when people drop the word play and just say what they mean if the rules permit it

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Go try it and report back.

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Idr the specifics I just remember a rude response. These usually come at the end of my lunch break

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In game I do this as all my characters are quite distinct from each other. That said, here in the forums, Iā€™m me, not my character. Over time Iā€™ve developed a three step filter before I post in a thread.

  1. Is there anything a ā€œreasonableā€ person would take as a personal attack? If yes, edit or delete it rather than post.

  2. Would it bother me if family, friends or coworkers could view my posting history? If yes, edit or delete it rather than post.

  3. Does it add anything of substance (or fun for silly threads) to the thread? If no, edit or delete it rather than post.

If in doubt I delete the draft and never post.

These are rules that Iā€™ve certainly broken in the past and now serve as integrity guardrails for myself. The only thing Iā€™m unapologetic about is the length of many of my posts as I feel context is important as well as showing where the opinion is coming from rather than pedantically stating what my conceit believes is a self evident truth.

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Having rules isnā€™t bias, people are aware of those rules if they actually read what they agree to when agreeing to using the forums so choosing to break those rules is 100% on the person breaking them.

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I say the same thing to people on both sides in public irl all the time

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Well apology accepted. I appreciate it either way.

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