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Sometimes though I find it necessary to speak up a bit more blunt and direct to get a message across that otherwise wont stick.....Unsnip
After observing your replies and posts for some time and after reading here the pros and cons of what other people reply to these, I only have one question to you.
Who appointed you as moderator/policeperson/challenger of what you perceive to be wrong with whatever someone posts and asks here when it does not agree with you. I certainly would NOT tolerate the tone of some of your replies if this had been directed against me and would consider it as a slap in my face with a leather glove (if you get my drift).
Don't get me wrong, this is NOT an attack against you personally, it is just a general observation of what I see this forum is slowly becoming to. You seem to somehow rub up some people the wrong way with some of YOUR aggressive and challenging manner. You criticize others for their writing style and -skills as you perceive these (of being somehow wrong), yet if others speak up against your manner of replies, YOU seem to get somehow ruffled yourself and fill this forum with unwanted waffle. Just check/search these foras (forums) here of how many posts of yours contain helpful and meaningful replies and how many other posts of yours do not.
To me it seems you DO invite the replies you get and relish this if people get confrontational towards you. This post of yours some days ago where you invited people to call you names confirms this. Some trolls do this more openly, are YOU one of those?
Again, who appointed you to police and moderate this forum? To me, ANY post/reply is worth reading and/or replying to if I so desire, I do it in a civil, helpful manner, whether a person is dyslexic, has not had any good educational skills acquired in school or whatever. If I DO NOT like a post, I DO NOT reply to it! Easy!
You certainly DO NOT know why some people write the way they write or phrase their words, YOU might have been lucky to get a good education and hence you seem you are very conversant in the language you post.
That is you!
Others might NOT have been so fortunate with their education or skills they have acquired. Who are YOU to criticize this? They might be dyslexic, refugees, newcomers to the country they now live in or could have met other circumstances or hardships in their life.
Just for your information, I migrated to Australia some years ago from Europe and knew nothing of the use of the English language when I arrived in this lucky country and if this had hypothetically happened a year ago, I certainly would be criticized and picked on by you of my writing style and skill I then would have had. Yet, back where I came from I went to middle school back home, learned the Old Latin and Old Greek language and would have started to be taught English the year after I left school due to my family's hardship. Would this have made me an uneducated forum poster if this hypothetical situation had arisen? As YOU would have perceived it?
Just because some others do agree with you does not mean you are completely and absolutely right, after all this is a free forum, for ANYONE to express whatever they feel a need to in the appropriate forum and if their post is NOT CONFORMING to the Rules of Contact of this forum, WE DO HAVE MODERATORS here to sort this out.
Again I ask, who appointed you do be the JUDGE and JURY of such posts?
My opinion
Not so cheery
VinnyBarb
