revol68
So membership of the Hexus forums automatically protects people from the terrible affliction of idiocy? What a community this must truly be.
That's your opinion and, unless you've invented some device that can measure someone's IQ by their posts on a forum, keep your opinion to yourself.
revol68
i really don't know of a milder, more family friendly term for someone who denies climate change,
How about ‘climate change denier’?
revol68
infact idiot is atleast giving them the benefit of the doubt that they are not lying/twisting things for their own gain like the actually backers of the denial lobby who've pumped millions into mudding the waters and creating an artificial debate over the reality of climate change.
Maybe so but the fact is that there's equal amounts of research to both confirm and refute global warming… and the pro-warming campaign is hardly helped by evangelistic doomsayers who do little to help their cause by labelling those who they feel are less educated on the subject as idiots.
revol68
I'm also curious as to how far this ban on ‘insulting’ people goes, if someone denied the holocaust would I be entitled to call them an idiot, if they made arguments that were racist, sexist or homophobe? (examples of which are dotted through out the Hexus forums btw) which to my mind are far more insulting than being called an idiot.
It's common courtesy more than anything and, to be perfectly frank, I shouldn't have to be giving lessons in basic manners to someone who clearly has the intelligence to use a computer. Would you call a checkout operator an idiot if they made an honest mistake with your change? I should hope not. And if you did think that was acceptable, I really hope I never bump into you in the real world.
Dragging up subjects such as the Holocaust, (note the capitalisation), as your defence for calling someone an idiot on a tech forum is just a cheap shot defence. Try it if you get a parking ticket you think is unfair and see how far it gets you. If you honestly had a clue, had maybe visited the museum at Auschwitz II and seen the shoes or gone to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin and felt the foreboding, then maybe you wouldn't leap to such defence so readily. Six
million men, women and
children dead so you can defend your rudeness. That's horrific, shocking arrogance.
And for every example you can give me of racist, sexist or homophobic behaviour I can show you a dozen more where it's quite clear that the vast majority of members are a tolerant, friendly bunch… hell, even those that have had
massive arguments over the tiniest of disagreements have managed to do so in good humour and without resorting to name-calling or insults.
Now either you're a really big, hard as nails kung fu master or you're constantly in and out of A+E because anyone walking around with an attitude such as yours would get people's backs up very quickly. Unless it's the third option and you're just like this once you're behind a keyboard.
revol68
People claiming global warming is a fiction insult everyones intelligence, I see no reason to care that they be insulted by being called idiots anymore than flat earthers or creationists.
Ok, so if you don't care, why care about global warming? You're perfectly happy to go on the offensive but at the same time you don't care? Or is it that those with a differing view from yours should be instantly dismissed as ignorant because you have all the real, true and irrefutable facts? If so, then why the hell are you wasting your time on here? You have all the answers to save mankind!
I rather suspect that you've drawn your own conclusions, perhaps got the box set of Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” and have got Everest coming round to fit some solar panels. But whilst you're clambering onto what you perceive to be the moral high ground, (might be handy if the seas rise anyway), you seem to have lost sight of the fact that everyone is entitled to an opinion. And they're entitled to express that opinion without fear of personal attack.
And before you even think of telling me about your right to free speech, I'll just cough and politely remind you that the HEXUS.community is run by HEXUS and a highly valued group of unpaid admins and mods. This isn't a free speech arena. If you want to exercise your right to free speech, start your own forums or head off to Speaker's Corner.
revol68
As for the expected response comment, have you any idea what that sounds like? What was the expected response, to fall on two knees and thank the mod for having such mercy when they could so easily have elected to swot me like a fly?
Well, I guess Saracen wasn't expecting something as childish as this last remark… can you not see that by being so puerile all you're doing is undermining all of your arguments? Any serious point you make is pretty much forgotten with comments like that.
All I can say in answer is that no, we don't expect anyone to fall on their knees and hail the mods as lord of the web. but we do expect everyone to behave like reasonable human beings and be civil to one another. If you can't do that or, as I suspect the case will be, you feel that others on the forums aren't deserving of civil treatment from you, then I strongly suggest you go elsewhere.
The choice is yours.
