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Immediately apologize if people get offended (even if I think they're being complete morons.)
-Always be polite, do not insult
-Remain rational in the exposition of my question/opinion and if emotions need to be exposed, expose them as such and say that it is personal to me.
-Assume good will from others, do not get offended if a criticism about my post is made.
-If such a personal criticism or even insult is made to me, just go over the elements of my post and the other person's post in a rational way, do not reply on the same tone and calmly state the way it made me feel, if need be.
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Doesn't this get exhausting? Because my opinion is that a person bent on seeing you as wrong or "the bad guy" doesn't bother to listen to what you're actually *saying*, that just reinterpret it and filter it through their "you're attacking me" lens.
After a while you get the feeling you're talking to yourself.