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Originally Posted by Baron Samedi  Sorry, but this only an issue because of one overly sensitive user. None of the "abuse" given was particularly bad and he seems to have taken one particular joke completely out of context and overreacted pretty badly to it.
I won't disagree that some of the initial posts made weren't particularly welcoming but let's be honest - if you can't take a few digs the internet's not going to be a comfortable place for you. As I said earlier, there were also more than a few people who were friendly and went out of there way to try and persuade him not to base his opinion of the place on a couple of silly comments.
If Forbes has noticed a trend developing in the way new users are treated then fair enough, he's perfectly entitled to speak out and act about it but this particular case is a one off in my opinion. I very much doubt that the vast majority of new users would react so quickly to something so relatively inoffensive. |
I know what you're getting at, but the sensitivity may also have come from not being exposed to this before. He didn't seem that used to much of the stuff we routinely hurl at each other at all, I know when I came to the forum I hadn't seen such a high level of casual abuse being slung about in other forums I'd previously been on but just bit my tongue until I got used to it and knew who was going to insult you regardless of who you are - some users, as we've seen, aren't willing to sit it out in this fashion and prefer just not to take it at all if they feel they're being personally attacked, whether their impression is mistaken or not. Chances are that, if he'd realised that he wasn't being singled out, he may not have responded in this fashion. I mean, he may have found it a bit more annoying as he didn't appear to have the thickest of skins, but he'd possibly also realise that people weren't ganging up and trying to hound him out either.
And if not, well, yeah. He'd die a MarkMono-induced death.
