Reply #9: It really depends on the poster. Even the most strident personalities... [View All]

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...have days when they are more moderate. There are a few posters who may be completely enraged with you in one thread yet moderate or even acquiescing to a point made in another thread. There are a few, of course, who have built up a hard layer of scar tissue around themselves and only exist to quack a particular talking point when squeezed, like a hateful rubber duckie.

  Again, it really depends on the poster and the topic and where discussion leads you. Sometimes threads start out flame-baity but evolve into rather frank, low-emotion, high-content discussions. Others are framed in noblest terms and devolve quickly into the jejune.

  Two posters may argue the exact same point but for completely different reasons or motivations. There is a poster, for instance, that I know has had a very troubled life...very troubled and who, during a process of healing, incorporated a number of ideas, unnecessary conflations, into their selves. Because I am aware of this, I wouldn't say, level a point as harshly against them in countering whatever point they made, as opposed to someone who clearly was a hack with a smoldering bromide, repeated endlessly like a mantra.

PB