Has PH changed the way you behave online?
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I'm fully expecting this "Not to go the way the OP intended"
You've got to be thick skinned to get the most out of these forums. An incredibly helpful and caring place at times. Other times full of knackers, tossers and their like.
It toughens you up in a way. Cutting banter, saying things you think that perhaps you shouldn't. You can be mocked, and put on your arse one minute, and get a personal message with helpful info the next.
Does the rough and tumble manner of the site change the way you behave on other sites?
I got in bother on a little local forum the other week. A silly prissy woman was complaining about something or nothing to do with aircraft noise saying it had unsettled her. She also wondered why it had to fly so close to houses. It had been a search and rescue helicopter looking for someone in trouble. My response was robust along the lines of FFS, if you don't like rescue helicopters saving lives, don't buy a house by the sea. Air crew out in all weather risking their lives and the best you can do is whinge and whine. They didn't fly too close to houses. You are clearly a fool. I may have been a trifle insulting.
On PH what I said would hardly raise an eyebrow.i
Well I got PMs of moderators, and lots of "how rude" offended responses. One poster said I was a "horrible, horrible person"
It dawned on me, it was the Internet equivilant of someone behaving like they are in a rugby club bar when they are actually in a genteel tea room.
I'd behaved in appropriately.
So has your PH attitude got you in bother, or indeed won you praise elsewhere on the web or indeed in real life?
Let the banter and insults begin.
You've got to be thick skinned to get the most out of these forums. An incredibly helpful and caring place at times. Other times full of knackers, tossers and their like.
It toughens you up in a way. Cutting banter, saying things you think that perhaps you shouldn't. You can be mocked, and put on your arse one minute, and get a personal message with helpful info the next.
Does the rough and tumble manner of the site change the way you behave on other sites?
I got in bother on a little local forum the other week. A silly prissy woman was complaining about something or nothing to do with aircraft noise saying it had unsettled her. She also wondered why it had to fly so close to houses. It had been a search and rescue helicopter looking for someone in trouble. My response was robust along the lines of FFS, if you don't like rescue helicopters saving lives, don't buy a house by the sea. Air crew out in all weather risking their lives and the best you can do is whinge and whine. They didn't fly too close to houses. You are clearly a fool. I may have been a trifle insulting.
On PH what I said would hardly raise an eyebrow.i
Well I got PMs of moderators, and lots of "how rude" offended responses. One poster said I was a "horrible, horrible person"
It dawned on me, it was the Internet equivilant of someone behaving like they are in a rugby club bar when they are actually in a genteel tea room.
I'd behaved in appropriately.
So has your PH attitude got you in bother, or indeed won you praise elsewhere on the web or indeed in real life?
Let the banter and insults begin.
Edited by wildcat45 on Sunday 28th June 10:33
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