Personal attacks

António Pedro Marques · 22 Nov 2011, 16:02 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:02:59 +0000
Subject: (urth) Personal attacks
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Ryan Dunn wrote (22-11-2011 15:47):
> I have literally deleted over 100 emails entitled Babbiecorn... for this
> very reason, Mo.
>
> There is a thin but important line between passionate discourse and
> slanderous rhetoric, which is getting quite blurry of late.
>
> Thanks you for raising the concern.

I think it's quite clear when one goes from criticism of the other's ideas 
to criticism of the other's intelligence/education/motivations/persona. And 
I think whenever that line is crossed, moderation would be in order.

You may have lost one or two interesting points by deleting the recent 
threads, but I don't think you need to worry.

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