Crux

One can be honest without being rude and abrasive. Moderating the tone and content of your posts to avoid being rude and abrasive is not compromising your principles - it's called basic courtesy and respect. These things are central to what TG is all about. If being courteous and respectful to your fellow TG members is a struggle for you, perhaps this isn't where you belong.

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Augustus Gloop

Let's not have this turn into an "everyone vs Uranium" thread please. If you have a new opinion or new arguments to add, please do so. Otherwise, refrain from posting "Yeah, me too" posts. Thanks.

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machowner

I disagree Gloop. I think he believes that others agree with him and being what he deems as "honest" is acceptable. I don't believe that to be the case. Every, well I guess most now, TG'er I've talked with has had one common thread, they were all respectful and careful with their words. Most TG'er understand that this is not a community full of adult, but one that spans generations. Many sons play with their dads here and many young people play here because of the maturity level we uphold.

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MDFubar

I would like to make one thing CLEAR! This thread was not intended to point out one particular person, the intention was to remind EVERYONE to be considerate and try to be aware of the words used and how they are used so as to not belittle people.

This should in no way, shape, or form be about one person and was definetly not intended to be against any member.

Continue on..

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SharinganTH1422

Just reminding of the original title of the thread:

How about some common courtesy?

Common courtesy shouldn't even be a debatable issue, it's a must in life and on these forums, we're not talking about the meaning of maturity. I'm just saying Uranium, you're not the only one here that can take it and dish it out, and often does in informal circles, but this is a public forum not just a private circle of friends. The rules are to be respectful, and its a common courtesy, and like Crux said, you can put your point across without being disrespectful (Edit: when I say "you", I don't mean Uranium, I mean "you" in general). I had a bit of trouble with that when I first came here and looking back on the posts I made, I realize why everyone was so annoyed at my stupid posts, and what I was doing wrong. Still haven't publicly apologized for my stupidity when I got here, so here it is, a big fat sorry, especially the admins who PMed me and helped me out in understanding where I was going wrong, I hope I wasn't a too big waste of your time.

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Anger is a gift - Malcolm X

...If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same...

Eroak

Uranium,

That post wasn't called for and deleted, if you have a problem with a comment, Use the Pirvate Messaging system. That isn't for public eyes. Nor is it constructive in any fasion to TG.

Yes, this board is censored. This is a privately owned forum. Which means we can censor all posts to contain posts about bears with hearts on them. We are pretty laid back about most content. But flaming and fingerpointing will not get you anywhere.

Just because someone isn't nice to you, doesn't mean that others need to provoked or dragged into this by being unrespectful to them. If we all were that way, this world would be a sad place and this community would excist. Ask them privately why they did what they did. Try and open up some form of communication with them. Try being friendly to them and they might be back. If they still are not friendly and concern you, you have a entire admin team to call upon and take care of problems. You need to talk to us if you feel you are being treated unfairly.

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From the TG Primer: 2) Create an environment where there is
mutual respect for your fellow gamers and where all members
would be working together to advance the enjoyment of their hobby.

Augustus Gloop

No one is perfect, certainly not me, you, or TG itself. If you think about it, TG is about as backwards a place as you can find on the internet. An anonymous forum where new, inexperienced folks are welcomed and not ridiculed? How did that ever come to be?

Please don't worry about trouble you've had while new. It takes everyone time to settle in to what TG really is all about. I'm sure Eroak would dig up some embarrassing posts I've made if you wanted to feel better.

Zoopy had to slap my wrist one time, and let me tell you I'd rather be banned from the server for a week than have that happen again :P

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Foxtrot6

At first I thought this thread was nonsense but I was wrong it was health, or at least, interesting. Good judgment on not locking it. Uranium, I think you are pretty much alone in many of your arguments and so you have stood up, like you said you would, and created a good debate/conversation. I understand that because I'm a Federal Prosecutor and have to make arguments all the time. Many of us have learned from this thread [many interesting perspective fromaround the world] - the question that some of us are wondering and you don't have to answer it aloud is . . . "what have you learned?"
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