--- In [email protected], "Susan" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > Actually, i meant pretty much what Barry said, and I was > not including Barry in the posts that I don't read. I do > skip his posts where he generalizes about TB's at FFL. I > also skip most of the posts of several other people for > the reasons I stated. I find many of Barry's posts really > interesting.
What I've never understood, Susan, is how you've missed the fact that Barry's posts, more than anyone else's on FFL, *depend* on ad hominem. If you are trying to avoid reading ad hominem, you'd have to skip reading *most* of his posts. It's not just those that "generalize about TBs at FFL." It's vicious, sadistic personal attacks on specific individuals, attacks on *TMers* in general (not just those on FFL, and not just TBs), attacks on Americans in general, and on and on. And for the most part these are *gratuitous* attacks, not responses to attacks by others on himself. I'm far from the only person here who is aware of all this. Barry's posts emit a sort of miasma of hatred that permeates the group, and you have somehow managed to close your perception to it--while at the same time self-righteously holding your nose at the ad hominem of *other* people. It's just very, very strange, Susan. > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm sure the Reverend Turq will have something to say > > > > in his morning sermon about this weeks winners. ;-) > > > > > > Not really. I think wayback covered it sufficiently > > > with her suggestion that people learn from their > > > previous experience and just not bother reading any > > > of the posts by people who you already know won't > > > have anything to say. > > > > Ah, but that wasn't what she said, now, was it, Barry? > > > > Here's what she said: > > > > "Agreed that a huge percentage of posts here are ad hominum, > > and usually made by the same people over and over and over. > > I think they enjoy that type of interaction, thrive on it > > even. Not my style, though. And not at all the way things > > used to be here, as you know. One solution is not to read > > them. At all. Works for me." > > > > Which means she doesn't read *your* posts, Barry, and > > that you've just suggested to FFLers that *they* not > > read your posts. > > > > OOOOOOOOOOOooooooooopsie. > > >
