I think in the heat of battle, as it were, the other guy--and/or his or her supporters--often experiences my posts to be much more "nasty and vicious" than they actually are. I'm frequently surprised when I reread my own posts from some epic argument to realize how restrained they were and how I instinctively took the nasty/vicious quotient of my opponent's posts down a level with each response rather than escalating it.
I think the perception of "nasty and vicious" is directly proportional to how accurate my criticisms are. I'm sure you won't agree, but that's why I say you'd have a hard time backing up your accusation. You're remembering your emotional response rather than the tone of my posts themselves. ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: Of course you think that, because you seem unaware of how you come across on this forum. ---In [email protected], <authfriend@...> wrote: I think you'd have a real hard time backing that up in my case, feste. But a no-brainer that Barry would be at the top of the list. ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: With all this recent talk about "vicious" and "nasty" posts, if one were to take a year's worth of FFL posts and list by poster all the posts that might reasonably be considered either vicious or nasty, there would be two posters at the top of the list, way ahead of any others. These would of course be authfriend and turquoise b. Share would be well down on the list.
