I agree that acting like a mischief-maker is not a very nice thing to do but you should treat Tim's intervention as harmless. I appreciate that you realised my post was insulating Tim, protecting him from the harsher responses, that he perhaps deserved, by getting my mild criticism in first.Snow wrote:mickey_one insulated Tim by writing:
>try to pick up the tone of a conversation before you join in. you may then choose not to stir unnecessarily.
Do you think Tim's failure to pick up the conversation's tone was due to a genuine lack of social aptitude, or do you think he unconsciously held a deep personal resentment towards you that broke through his otherwise water-tight defences? By writing that Tim might choose not to stir unnecessarily you are strongly suggesting that he deliberately chose to evoke disruption. You are calling him a mischief-maker - an agitator. And I don't think that's a very nice thing to do.
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Geoffers, when did Jarkko lift the ban on you, imposed for the obscenity you posted on another one of the forums?