human sexual selection

[MagsJ]

Magsj when did you start moderating the psychology forum..? I remember (Carleas?) or whoever used to do it not getting quite so bent out of shape over disagreements... one reason I preferred the psych to the phil forum...

...since November 2009 TTG - I am (once again) responding to a report raised by a poster in regard to a reply to their post, where they felt that they were being personally attacked and not their views on the topic, which is an understandable gripe to have, no?

A mod's gotta do their job, after-all

[Three Times Great]

Magsj when did you start moderating the psychology forum..? I remember (Carleas?) or whoever used to do it not getting quite so bent out of shape over disagreements... one reason I preferred the psych to the phil forum...

...since November 2009 TTG - I am (once again) responding to a report raised by a poster in regard to a reply to their post, where they felt that they were being personally attacked and not their views on the topic, which is an understandable gripe to have, no?

It depends on whether or not, in attacking another one's views, that one is themselves also necessarily "attacked". Do you really think these can always be separated out from each other, a person's views and the person themselves? Such separation may be maintained only at the surface level, which is where, when we are bound by "not hurting other people's feelings" or not "personally attacking them" (always in the eye of the beholder), the conversation always remains..

[MagsJ]

...not replying to the points that a poster has made, but instead conjuring up a reply based on a poster's known beliefs is a valid reason for them to report a post.