I am 58 years old and this has never happened to me until today.

[MADem]

104. Yes, it's a shame in many ways, isn't it?

Sometimes it's the failure of the written word (when people's intent is misconstrued), but other times it's "I don't like you/your opinion so I am going to say something insulting about your character to compensate for my inability to come up with a counter-argument!" Thus, we see conversations that start out about a topic, and end up with poop flinging. Other times, it's long - standing feuds. With no more "forced ignore" we see more of that.

It's way less civil around here lately, but in a way, taking the long view, looking at the Big Picture...at least we know where that's coming from and can avoid it.

It used to be "the mods," using their standards of "decency" or "civil discourse," made the decision as to what posts just went "POOF" and what ones were allowed to stand. If one wasn't around when the offending post was made, it was like it never even happened, and we didn't get the 'full flavor' of an individual's personality. Now, we know, and can act accordingly!