Blogcritics Comments on Like to hear it, here it goes:

Comment by mars sanford on Like to hear it, here it goes:

Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:20:39 EDT

Philip, that's so funny, I ws going to say just that. ]]>

Comment by Phillip Winn on Like to hear it, here it goes:

Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:09:29 EDT

And your agreement has already raised you up a bit from that level again. ;) ]]>

Comment by Dew on Like to hear it, here it goes:

Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:40:13 EDT

What's been happening lately on certain specific posts is that disagreements boil down to pure insults, name calling, insinuations, and lies with no regard for the original topic. This is just childish and doesn't accomplish anything but making enemies. The best way to make this stop is to not respond, no matter how angry it makes you. Anger is fed by attention, and inattention forces the anger to burn itself out. I'm sorry that you posted this, Dew, as it does lower you to the level of your accusers. It would have been better, I think, to have let the post stay where it was.

agreed and agreed ]]>

Comment by Phillip Winn on Like to hear it, here it goes:

Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:18:38 EDT

Thank you, Tom, very well put. I'm sorry that you posted this, Dew, as it does lower you to the level of your accusers. It would have been better, I think, to have let the post stay where it was. Don't let people get under your skin! I know, more easily said than done. ]]>

Comment by Tom Johnson on Like to hear it, here it goes:

Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:15:33 EDT

Controversy and disagreement has been a staple of Blogcritics as long as I've been a part of the site (early this year,) and probably since its inception last year. It just goes with the territory. Most people can deal with that intelligently, and even if it reduces down to insults, there is still a core of the argument that actually has something to do with the topic at hand. What's been happening lately on certain specific posts is that disagreements boil down to pure insults, name calling, insinuations, and lies with no regard for the original topic. This is just childish and doesn't accomplish anything but making enemies. The best way to make this stop is to not respond, no matter how angry it makes you. Anger is fed by attention, and inattention forces the anger to burn itself out. I hope we can all take the high road and simply skip over the posts by names we know we're going to not just disagree with but wind up in a heated angry dispute with. Intelligent, mature people take this route. We all want to be mature and intelligent, don't we? ]]>