>>Semantics, semantics. Twice the site owner had to slap him down publicly...both within the first 100 posts or so in the thread.
Cheers! <<
It isn’t any fun to feel ganged up upon in thread - even the best people have a tendency to react to being told to calm down with a negative reaction. Heck, I would have felt ganged upon on Coyote’s behalf except I read the thread backwards and missed the early hostility.
A couple of my favorite debating buddies, Willie Green and Travis can attest to that - its a natural reaction when one thinks one is in the right and is told to drop it.
I don’t want to speak for Jim (and can’t speak for Jim) but I would guess he understands that and its one factor in reversing bans when he is asked to do so.
But I suspect one of two things happen:
1) Someone comes over after posting on DC and is so used to the tone there that his post here looks and feels like culture shock
2) The poster is so unused to dissenting voices on this topic they they lose their patience after awhile : particularly with the more strident, broad brush accusations (happens on both sides, with people calling the other side ignorant Fundies or Satanists, depeding on which direction the lemon meringue is being hurled).
Might as well be the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Cheers!