Thanks for your work on this, love the forum…

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Thanks for the response, Jhevz. Of course I agree with you too… Lotsa great advice. And yes to theFrey’s response, very concise… Brevity has never been a strength of mine, unfortunately.

Yes, most of us learn to moderate our behavior; it’s crucial to success in the workplace, with your friends, and if one can’t do it at home, well it’s not conducive to a very happy family life.

I’m talking about people here who are generally considerate posters and valued members of a web community (not malicious, bitter trolls):

Part of what I was getting at is intent… Sometimes we make “bad posts” unintentionally… Sometimes our intent/meaning is misconstrued (not clear enough) which leads to unpleasantness — it’s because of this that I often mention that we should generally try to adhere to the “principle of charity” in responding.

Sometimes our judgement is lacking — that can be a real problem even for the generally well-behaved poster.

I’d say that when you’re having a bad day be extra careful before hitting that submit button… At the same time, if one is always really worried about offending someone out there with a statement, then it can be very difficult to say something meaningful/important. Too much moderation can stifle creativity… We can moderate ourselves to death. Still, yes, prudence in posting is best… And if we’re really thoughtful with what we say, well, more thought leads to better, and better expressed, ideas.

I tend to write blogs which is not conducive to great posting/writing. Things pop into my posts as quickly as they pop into my head — sometimes even quicker. 😆 They may be bad posts in that they’re often a little disorganised and messy, but I like to expose my thinking process, or lack of thinking process as the case may be, somewhat — makes posting more personal to me… And I hate writing formal essays. Believe it or not, there was a time during my academic days when I considered the only truly bad posts to be sloppy posts… How we change. 😀

But I digressed… 🙄

Thanks for your work on this.