Mutual respect, prejudice, safety, and personal responsibility

[MileHigh]

Really?  I don't see any name-calling.  I voiced a strong opinion for sure because I don't believe that black is white and heads are tails.  It was like someone trying to program your thoughts which is the ultimate irony considering who I was disagreeing with.

I made fun of another person's handle?  Not that I am aware of in this thread.  My handle is not about xes in a plane, that aspect only occurred to me afterwards.  You need to take a chill pill because almost any handle can be reinterpreted with a bit of imagination.  Yours could easily have a quite negative interpretation.

You are way off base as far as I am concerned.  Also, if you have something to say to me just say it.

[Jimboot]

Ok if I have to spell it out it's a bit pointless but here goes. Where I come from calling someone pretentious and disingenuous is NOT respectful. Be what you want to see in the world mate.
All the best

[MileHigh]

Ok if I have to spell it out it's a bit pointless but here goes. Where I come from calling someone pretentious and disingenuous is NOT respectful. Be what you want to see in the world mate.
All the best

Well you are wrong.  I was simply disagreeing with him and my choice of words in the context of the subject matter and the facts was reasonable.

Posting a "Don't feed the trolls" sign wasn't exactly respectful on your part, was it?  I will repeat that I was just pushing you guys to do better.  It looks to me like the thread is dead and it went nowhere.

What about you?  Do you agree with SeaMonkey or do you agree with me?  If I was to insult and demean someone does that really mean I like them?  What do you say?

[SeaMonkey]

What about you?  Do you agree with SeaMonkey or do you agree with me?

If you don't mind, I'll take a stab at your questions
Miles.  I'll pass here.

If I was to insult and demean someone does that really mean I like them?

It certainly could mean that you do.  I'll go a
bit further - it would be very nice if you did.

What do you say?

That it depends.  You might or, in the moment you
might not.  But you should.

After all, aren't we really among friends in this Forum?

[sarkeizen]

Keep these things in mind when you call somebody a "shill" or a "paid government agent."

What I tend to feel about the "shill" comments is bored.  I think I've said this before if someone really and truly believed that say someone like myself got a literal check, cash, ETF, paypal (whatever the shadow government is using these days - Bitcoin?) when I criticize people.  I would find that terribly interesting.  I would absolutely love to talk to someone like that.  I've had a couple of chances to talk to people who have limited delusions and I found it fascinating. 

However what seems far, far, far more plausible is that this is just an attempt to insult people.  "shill" is being in about the same respect that the word "asshole" would be used.

I have no idea what set of social mores are expected on this part of the internet but if we're talking about self-moderation (or a more authoritative kind) then one I think needs to ask what kind of outcome one wants.  If someone wants to have interesting discussions.  Then I suggest that at least two people need to be communicating around some point.  In which case the people who post a lot without advancing the point are probably the people who should curb their posting (or have it curbed).

However if the point is to have traffic on a site from people who would click on ads about "Bedini Advanced Handbook" then clearly one would want the greatest number of wingnuts posssible.