Mebbe. I expected an avalanche of negativity on this thread. Didn’t get it yet.
I suppose I could tone down the rhetoric, anyway.
If one searches in earnest for negativity, what else would that one expect to find?
If you expect to ensnare a fish, you don’t bring food for fowl.
If you expect to ensnare a mind, then rhetoric is the proper bait.
I see no reason to change your style, Faust. Sometimes, it’s a good idea to put the responsibility back on the reader … it can be refreshing to have someone tell you that your perspective needs retooling.
As a matter of fact, maybe we all need to hear that more often.
when someone calls someone else a name, it only reveals irrationality on the part of the name caller. It’s easier to call someone stupid than teach them.
Faust, this noise is nothing… Being called mean is like a compliment comming from a scared and mamed opponent.
I am well liked and well hated…
After a year or more of experience here, i can say that the only important effect is an ego stroking or not.
I can see why the fact that you’re a moderator entitles you to place your happiness above trying to learn or teach, so be it.
but it will save you allot of trouble not to rebuke every criticism, unless you’re bored or something 
Then again, getting insulted renders you privy to any number of enjoyable options.
public degradation threads are one of them, never been my taste, but to ech their own
I considered the OP question with all due respect, but that diminished after I realized you expected folks to read through 4 pages of a thread just to give you feedback on your capacity for ‘niceness’. Or lack thereof, who the fuck cares?
Dude, you’re 50 years old, you’re supposed to have that shit figured out by now. Because there’s like a hundred more layers to figure out after the basic stuff about ‘am I nice, do people like me?’. You’ll run out of time at this pace.
No Faust, you’re not nice enough.
Scratch my back and I’ll…
Ingenium - you see, it’s rudeness like this that might make me be not so nice.
So I will ignore it.
Lighten up Faust.
(This is coming from me, of all people…)
Which is`why it’s worthless advice.
How? If you don’t know whether or not you’re nice, then how do you even know that what I wrote was rude? Isn’t honesty kinder than nicely packaged bullshit?
And if you gotta ask a bunch of Internet forum participants whether or not you’re nice in the first place, then you’ll deserve the answers you get. The breed’s not generally known for its highly-developed social skills, after all.
But if you really want to flex some rude muscles, go ahead, give it a try and I’ll hold up score cards, like in the Olympics. Well, the low tech Olympics, anyway. If you don’t, I don’t mind being ignored. It saves me time.
I’m Satyrized, it’s like teflon, nothing sticks.
It’s the internet.
Need any more be said?
Seriously, I’m pretty sure the entire thing exists cause God felt the need to show humanity that, generally, we need to chill the fuck out.
(This isn’t directed at you Faust, but people who have a problem with you)
Aw, it’s William Hague
But, apparently, spelling remains within the domain of infants because adults are too fucking stupid to be able to handle such rudimentary tasks.
i wonder who’s more right in this situation…
Mas - maybe the author needs an English teacher.
As usual, Tab, you’ve got it wrong. I am not sad, but curious.
Even assholes get curious.
Wonderer - myself, I am not concerned with who is right - I am wondering if the way i express myself is what i think it is. As the reviews are mixed, I still don’t know.
I’m learning something about assholes, though.
never have trouble understanding you… when we first communicated i think you were quite short with me… probably that’s what i needed…
As a rule of thumb, i would suggest that when people are hard of understanding you should dumb things down a bit, inspite of logical positivism
Hmmm.
I do see sometimes someone has made a logical error which they do not recognise, and when I point this out, they think it doesn’t matter. And, in a deductive argument, I do think it matters.
That’s probably not what you mean, though.
And yes, I saw you edit “I am not said” into “I am not sad”. 
You are nice we are nice everyone is nice, now shut the f**k up and play nice!!! Geezzz, some peoples. Say Omommypottyum and meditate for a bit, while you do the doobie. You all won’t give a darn about anything after that. Oh and just 