JoeMauer89 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 9:28 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:08 pm
Guys, that's not appropriate, especially on the lacrosse side of the forum.
It's a personal attack.
And on this particular point, Doc actually said something funny.
A sense of humor would be a more appropriate response.
Yes, not appropriate. He needs to be reminded that he is not better than everyone else in this thread. His posts can be humorous at times, but often come off as pompous, pedantic, and as if others are beneath him. That was my way of calling him out on it in an attempt to give him a sense of understanding as to what he is doing. That was the intention of the post.
Joe
I understand your opinion re "pompous, pedantic, and as if others are beneath him", though I don't entirely share it (most of the time), but I'd just suggest that pushing back on such would be far better reserved for actual, clear instances of such in a post, rather than his mere presence as a poster.
And far better to say that a particular post is "arrogant" or "pedantic" than to attack the poster as such. Be specific about what in that particular post comes across that way and why it does to you.
In other words, let's give each other room to clarify, modify...if they then don't, that's on them and will be obvious without the necessity to attack.
That also allows the general tone of the discussion to be much more inviting to other posters, especially new ones. We need to add. Very few need to be subtracted, and Doc's not on that list IMO.
On Doc's posts above, IMO they were quite funny, clever, and neither arrogant nor pedantic...of course, if someone married their cousin, they might have a different perspective!