I’ve noticed that despite the “Please: no profanity...” call for civility on the posting-comment page, there is an uncommon amount of vulgarity, name-calling, personal attacks — and surprisingly little respect here for contrary opinions. It will continue to repel thoughtful and courteous freepers and diminish the tone of the site.
But your comment is appreciated. The only good that comes from name-calling and foaming irrationality, is that once I see it I feel free to ignore the poster rather than attempt to reason with him.
Then there’s the folks who don’t seem to understand that posting one’s opinion on an opinion forum does not entail any obligation to elaborate, answer questions, accept essay assignments, or otherwise jump hoops at the whip crack of any anonymous poster who swaggers up with a random command.
Good luck cleaning the Augean forum!
Bahahahahahahaha!
You don’t seem to understand your “opinion” is worthless without substantiation. We are not here to provide “atmosphere” for your philosophical masturbation.
If you hold this forum in such low regard, log out and don't come back.
Easy...
That said, posting one's opinion on an opinion forum DOES invite other anonymous posters to request elaboration, raise questions, solicit essay-length details, and otherwise configure hoops and crack whips. Failure to provide sensible rational commentary & defense diminishes respect for said contrary opinions.
To wit: if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Many here (yours truly included) exercise heated/scathing/sharp disagreement as a means to examine both sides of issues and hone our own opinions; this is often misunderstood. The very opinion of what constitutes "thoughtful" and "courteous" may be in doubt and up for debate.