(01-28-2015, 02:52 PM)Alothia Wrote:(01-28-2015, 02:48 PM)Graeham Ridgefield Wrote: On a side note, critique is a thing. You don't necessarily have to like it but not everybody is going to bend over backwards to lace their words with sugar. What matters is whether or not they back up their words with more than just sniping and ranting.
We're all wired differently and a healthy community is made up of lots of different people. I don't think there's much need to try and 'baby' people for being more blunt than others unless they're specifically breaking an established rule.
Again, this ties into what I was stating earlier about many people here coming from all sorts of different backgrounds and communities.
I disagree. I think that bluntness has it's place, and that's when people ask for it.
If no one asks for your blunt opinion, and it could be construed as something that isn't constructive, then you should keep it to yourself.
Keeps us Admin from having to step in every two seconds because someone answered blunt with snarky.
We'll just have to agree to disagree then. Sites such as this tend to attract a wide range of different personalities and to be honest...I hold the belief that anything posted on a site such as this is open for debate unless explicitly specified.Â
Again, some people are just naturally more blunt than others. Just like some people are more friendlier than others. Sometimes it's a culture thing and in other cases it's a personality thing. Either way I find it enjoyable to have a wide variety of different posting styles to read through.
Obviously the site rules should be adhered to at all times but I do thing debates such as this would benefit more from agreeing to disagree instead of claims that someone should never, ever do something.
You're very welcome to PM me though if you'd like to carry on the debate as I don't want to drive the thread off-topic into a debate about posting styles and the like.