P defends V. ...

[Joseph Tracy]

You're not being real Terrance; you ask why others bother to respond  
to your posts, but why do you respond to others' posts? Practice what  
you preach. There are no rules here and anyone can participate as far  
as I can tell ; there are also no list thugs. But rudeness may well  
be met in kind.
My problem is not with your evaluation of the work, which is often  
worth considering. It is the disrespectful attitude and the  
unwillingness to make an argument and let it stand  or defend it  
civilly without the  put downs and defensive claims of superior  
knowledge when people disagree.  I can't, nor would I want to censor  
you, but when you are rude or when I find your contentions  off the  
mark,  I may choose to respond.  You act as though everyone else  
should be thick skinned , but you don't have to be. If you can't take  
it, don't dish it out!
On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:19 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Why waste time talking about how you want  others to contribute to a
> discussion. This isn't a PTA meeting. We don't need robin's rules of
> order and a spelling test to decide who getz to say something. If you
> hate the way terrance or alice (or the other hundred or so names
> he/she has posted under since 1993 or the hundred more he/she will use
> in the future) writes, there is nothing you can do about it. Delete.
> Skip. Whatever. Move on for christ's sake. he/She doesn't respect your
> stinking badges. You know, you need to ask yourself why you bother to
> read anything terrance or alice or what/who(m) ev er puts in your box.
> is it the author, the title? why struggle with it? I guess he could
> respect the discussion and clean up his act. but that would be too
> much work. he/she is lazy. i hate lazy people too. so, we should just
> delete this person and move on. on the other tit, it might not be a
> bad idea to get some balz and tell robin and the other list thugs to
> fuck off.
>
> itz yr move boyz,
>
> terrance