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To: jlallen who wrote (230068)	5/7/2007 5:40:48 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes. I have noticed that about you.

To: jlallen who wrote (230068)	5/7/2007 5:45:23 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Exactly... there's an old saying, "Being kind to the cruel is being cruel to the kind." Simply stated, you have to talk the language of the one to whom you're speaking... GZ™

To: jlallen who wrote (230068)	5/7/2007 6:39:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Fight fire with fire would make sense if it actually changed anything, or anyone, but it doesn't. In fire fighting, for example, you light a backfire to put out the fire- on SI such "fire fights" seem to have the opposite effect. You just have more fire (and often it gets out of control with people saying things, in fits of temper, that they never would say ordinarily). What you get is a multiplier effect. One rude person calling names can cause multiple other users to degrade- and pretty soon a board is useless for anything other than name calling for a while. Have you not observed this? I don't see the productivity in that. If there was a productive outcome, I'd be more willing to consider the positive power of rudeness. JMO of course