Posted by PartlyCloudy on August 5, 2010, at 7:57:13
In reply to Re: Why Is Babble Not Babbling? » PartlyCloudy, posted by sigismund on August 5, 2010, at 3:06:27
> I've never read a FAQ.
> Perhaps some innate deviousness has made it natural for me to master the civility rules.
> Just like home.
> So, I'd (probably) know what was uncivil, and it would merely be a question of whether I was willing to do the public recant and repentance.
> If you wrote to me arguing (as in "Darkness at Noon") that some greater good in which I believed justified my misrepresenting myself, or differently, if you were to argue that I had already misrepresented myself (not too hard) I would listen and perhaps agree.
>
> I grew up in a family where there were often correct and cold relations, so the civility rules seem to come naturally to me.
> I remember Seldomseen's good post about form vs content, something about the spirit of the post is up to you.
> That stung a bit, my spirit being what it is.Ah. I hear you, Sig. (So often, much of the discussion sails right over my pointed head.) My family was a strange collection of forced happy faces, plastered over whatever we may have been genuinely feeling. Anything less than beaming sunshine-y smiles resulted in being sent to one's room. (I spent a lot of time there, as I was always the one to point out that there was an enormous elephant sharing the house with us, and it was taking up a lot of space.) Civility was not something that was apparent, as absolutely everything HAD to be Great! Lovely! Well Done! regardless of form or content. Crazy making for certain, at least for this member of the family. Consequently, and also as a result of my extensive (may I say exhaustive?) training to be the shortest-serving deputy in the history of Babble, I look for those references to the FAQs.
But, as Bob has also said with reference to civility, there are times when he knows it when he sees it. I mean you no slight in my pondering of what the original poster might have intended.
PartlyCloudy, bumbling.
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