That’s a good way to teach a kid to value pride over pragmatism.
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@ [Aliandrin] If I came across an employee with the kind of attitude that says never apologize because it will simply allow others to know they have the power to hurt you… (basically what you said) I would fire them from my company on principle.
If I came across a business partner with that attitude, I would seriously consider severing ties with them. The attitude of saying “I am always right no matter what” Is dangerous for me. It leads to any confrontation turning into a lawsuit instead of being peacefully resolved.
You might think it is a good attitude to have. And it might be personally good for you if you have been surrounded in life by deferential people. However, that is abusive. You might enjoy your abusive behavior. It might even be profitable for you. But I can assure you that the moment you try that strategy with anyone with life experience or real power, that approach simply is not going to fly. Period. Teaching your child this strategy is foolhardy. It is better to admit you are wrong and cooperate with the team than to try to lord it over everyone and be as abrasive as possible.
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Dont stress it. People get offended way too easily. Ive been silenced on the forums over some pretty simple stuff… But Ive also been silenced over stuff that I know was “wrong” to the commonfolk.
Imagine realizing you did something wrong, but were too cowardly to admit it, take your lumps and learn from it to move on to not make the same mistakes…THEN go off in time and spawn offspring to be just as cowardly as you are for not seeing admitting and OWNING your mistakes. smh
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And that kid would be a future president of the United States.
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An Apology = strength in my eyes. The strength to be self aware of your effects on the people around you. It should not ever be over-used however and it should not be given to those un-worthy of it. If people flagged you for expressing your opinion (without insult to anyone) then the fault lies with them not you. You owe them nothing and your gesture will fall on death ears and be used to hurt you.
However to this notion that one should never give an apology, This form of polarization of idea’s hurts us all.
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Yall arguing about apologies but nobody should be apologizing for getting mass flagged on the forum period. It happens and if they didn’t get silenced they obviously didn’t do anything wrong.
I got banned for saying “the devs like to instead vacation at Martha’s Vineyard.”
Which obviously was just me making a joke about the state of WoD. My appeal response said “I cannot talk about developers personal lives.”
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This is what happens when the guards are understaffed and the inmates rule the looney bin.
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100000000000000000000000000% epic Margirita, ^5!!
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I lost trust level 3 for posting a TL;DR gif in a trolling thread. Think I got a two week mandatory vacation too.
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One week here for talking smack about a certain Blizzard Employee. lol
No regrets. Totally worth losing TL3. 
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OP, just do my standard go to and link Brenda Lee’s “I’m sorry”. Here I will even do it for you!
I knew somebody like this at work. He lasted… 3 months then was canned because everybody ended up hating him.
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Thank you I am sorry if feelings were hurt.
I was suspended once for laughing at what I thought was a joke.
Yeah I made a joke about Tortollon once that people didn’t find funny.
Are you going to apologize every time a post of yours get flagged? xD
Well I’m still here…but I am hoping that I won’t say anything, that I will be able to choose my words a bit more carefully, so it won’t happen again.n
I found out what it was in this very thread, so was able to realize what was said and get on top of it quickly.
As for what Alladrin is saying, I agree with what that person says about the business world, when I pick up the newspaper and see that there is an apology for falsely advertising a product and so on, it does make me have more respect for the business then I would otherwise, but that’s just me.
And if they actually do something wrong… well, it’s fine?
Okay.
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Could be possible of people just falsely mass flagging. Wouldn’t worry too much about it Elae.
Alright, so let’s test this.
I apologise. I was absolutely wrong when I said that apologising only makes you look weak.
So here’s my apology. I was wrong. I shouldn’t have said something that horrible, especially since people are likely to believe it. I can’t imagine how awful a few words will make the world. People don’t understand that words can have a snowball effect.
It really isn’t. All I see when somebody won’t even say sorry when they did something wrong, is somebody that refuses to accept personal responsibility. Why would you trust somebody like that? I sure don’t.
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