posted on March 20, 2001 03:07:21 PM
I see you recall the thread, Helen. Yes, HCQ did put on a front of laughing at the people who were making fun of her. But that did not (and never does) justify what was being said. As for what the moderator did or did not understand, I addressed the matter in that thread and subsequent threads, no need to rehash it here (although those threads have been deleted).
Suffice to say that in her "exit manifesto" (posted, I believe, in the Moderator's Corner and, again, quickly deleted by TPTB) HCQ admitted that the ugly words had in truth hurt her.
(Edited to add that I wasn't commenting on what you found on the comedy site, Helen, so no criticism intended there. )
posted on March 20, 2001 04:17:50 PM..."she could send some pretty venomous zingers too"
That's certainly true, and I don't mean to suport the post which was the subject of all of this. In truth, I didn't at first realize that it was sexually insulting as I'm guilty of not having kept myself abreast of lesbian linguisa or common jargon.
But a poster undeniably sets the tone of the response to his or her posts, and affects the approaches that are taken in relating to that poster. Because of that no single happenstance can be used to characterize a person forever after.
posted on March 20, 2001 04:25:10 PMBut a poster undeniably sets the tone of the response to his or her posts, and affects the approaches that are taken in relating to that poster.
Am I misreading, or are you saying it was partly HCQ's fault that the attacker said offensive things to her?
posted on March 20, 2001 04:31:54 PM
If by her prior posting she had offended that poster, yes, though I still don't really know the extent of the offensiveness of that post except through your say so. It was taken away before I knew of the turmoil over it, and all that I did see was Quilt's post in which she was not obviously offended or hurt.
On your other point of the amount of hurt done her, it is my impression from the exit of Quilt that she objected more to her perception of the character of moderation concerning that post than she did the post itself. In any case she didn't make a federal case of it as you have done, Spazmodeus.
posted on March 20, 2001 04:40:31 PM she objected more to her perception of the character of moderation concerning that post than she did the post itself.
Agreed, but she found the post offensive nevertheless.
posted on March 20, 2001 05:09:01 PM
Which of course makes my having said that you had not gotten anything interesting an absurdity since you have had some from me, Irene.
