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Adam:
ok I agree with what you're saying - disregard my nonsense

I think it's  hard to stop yourself in a conflict though, even when you do know when. especially if the people involved are very stubborn

renaeden:

Adam:
 :plus:

Al Swearegen:

--- Quote from: Pyraxis on January 01, 2011, 11:22:06 PM ---Hm ok.

Soph I'm not talking about patronizing people by babying them. I agree that would be pretty useless.

But I don't think proving you're right about the most minute of details is empowering for anybody. Knowing when to stop is a really important skill in a conflict - so you can call your boss out without getting your ass fired, for example, or so you can deal with fights with your partner without breaking up every time there's a disagreement. It's not just about the facts of the matter. There's interplay of emotions.

@Sir Les - yeah that's true, it would suck worse if the admins weren't smart. But the dogpiling of Richard was ridiculous.

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Ridiculous? It was priceless comedy!  :laugh:
Hell I will hold myself completely accountable for this. But I did not jump on him because everyone else was. I just liked to do it regardless. That may make me mean or cruel or ridiculous but it makes me happy.
If someone is a dick and hold radicalised or stupid opinions they can expect people to jump on them. Look at Duke calling out Ian for being black. Height of fail and he will get a lot of people not agree with him and therefore a lot of individuals, individually piling on him share commonly. It does not mean we are piling on them BECAUSE others are but because we each share that value.

It would similarly be silly to bar anyone coming late into the exchange from joining in because someone else said something. So again I don't know if you are looking at the alternative or seeing if perhaps you have a preference to a different approach or just finding fault?

Callaway:
I guess we should all follow Pyraxis' example in her callout with Lucifer and make sure we call out or are called out only by people who are our intellectual superiors.

Heaven forbid we should be smarter than someone who repeatedly accuses us of some ridiculous wrongdoing, contrary to all the evidence otherwise.


I think if someone calls me out, they have to accept the risk that comes with that.  I'm not going to "tie half my brain behind my back" to make things more equal if I believe the person has a lower IQ than mine.  Nor would I expect someone I called out to do that for me if their IQ was higher than mine.

I started out giving Richard the benefit of the doubt and I looked in the mod log to help him figure out what might have happened but I'm not about to admit that I did something I didn't do.  Short of that, I don't know what I could have done to end the argument when he decided to call me out again over something we had already resolved the first time.

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