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Originally Posted by Aladdin Sane
The problem is one of personal attacks.
Here is my proposal: Any personal attack, any at all, is called by the other participants in the discussion who recognize the personal attack. In calling "personal attack," all you have to do is quote the offending message and write "Personal Attack" underneath it. Once a poster is called for making a personal attack, no one would make any further responses to that person in that thread. Period.
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An interesting idea but I don't think it's all that practical. Unless there was consensus about a "persoal attack" I could see most threads devolving into debates about whether or not what was written constitutes a personal attack.
I can see this as being more divisive than not.
I think if someone feels they are being personally attacked they need to report it to the mods. Rarely does one mod make the call. There is a lot of discussion "behind the scenes" so to speak.
The other thing is to simply get thicker skin and ignore the "personal attack".
I don't know. I can't think of a time where I've been attacked personally were I was either offended enough to report it, or didn't just call the poster on it. I have always found it effective to just address the discussion and ignore the attack.
Perhaps I don't get attacked all that much.