Comments on: How's Your Online Etiquette?

By: J. White Sensei

J. White Sensei — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:30:14 +0000

A great article. I don’t think I could have said it one bit better myself. I agree with you 100%!!!

By: lolabees

lolabees — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:28:23 +0000

Haha! You must have a way… or they were just used to getting letters like that and rolled with it. You didn’t want to write a post that was just one long word? Welcome back. I’ll look forward to seeing what you have to say next. 😉

By: dinkerson

dinkerson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:53:48 +0000

Well, I sent the email to three different people who worked for that paper. One girl responded and said that if that was my application for an editing position, I had at least made an impression. Another girl said that she hoped I had good new year. And the guy said thanks for reading.
:^D

I’ve not been writing because my space key stopped working properly on my old computer. I may be back now, if I can get in the swing of things.
Hope you’ve been doing well.

By: lolabees

lolabees — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:22:09 +0000

In reply to dinkerson.

Haha! Why can I see that happening in a moment of weakness? Did you ever get a response? You’re cursed now. Not really. You always write great posts… which we haven’t seen in a while! This “curse” you describe could be good though. I’ll just pretend that sort of thing happened to all those jerks. Good to hear from you again, dink!

By: dinkerson

dinkerson — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:09:13 +0000

You know, I hate to admit this… but I once wrote a letter to the editor of some small town paper, railing him about his grammatically diseased mind, infected with a pervasive dismissal of anything hinting at the possibility of any accredited education in his field. So…yeah, i”m that guy.
And what sucks the most is that now I’ve been cursed with never being able to write a post, or even leave a comment, without typos.
So, all that confessing simply to say that your paper’s mystery opinionair is probably getting fat.

By: lolabees

lolabees — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:24:32 +0000

In reply to “Occam Blade”.

I like that: disagree without being disagreeable. It’s perfect. I’ll never understand what drives people to be so negative towards others, when they could easily find the positive in something. Oh well, luckily it’s not mine to worry about. And so… I agreeably agree that the more we focus on the positive stuff, the more we’ll find an abundance of it. Oh wait, did this whole post ruin that by focusing on these mean people out there? 😉

By: "Occam Blade"

"Occam Blade" — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:24:32 +0000

In the October 17th issue of the Wall Street Journal is an article about “social rule breakers” [as in people who talk incessantly on their cell phone in what’s supposed to be a quiet area]. It’s an interesting read. I think some of us have evolved [or regressed] to more primitive sentiments of validation, even entitlement. If you have a valid point and care to disagree, then do so without being disagreeable. Time, energy, prana etc. are in short supply so I’d much rather associate with positive people and not let “bastards drag me down.”

By: lolabees

lolabees — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:00:02 +0000

In reply to Kristy.

Kristy,
I just read that article. I thought it was a really interesting interpretation of the debate. If you really paid attention to what he was writing, it was about those things you quoted and how we make decisions or judgments differently now. What I find so humorous is that if you read the comments, they really have nothing to do with that point. They are a bunch of people just leaving their own “retorts and clever one-liners” about how much they hate Obama or Romney. Makes you realize almost no one is even paying attention to what they read anyway. It’s sort of how we listen, I guess. Instead of actually listening, we’re too busy trying to think of what we’re going to say.

By: lolabees

lolabees — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:32:33 +0000

In reply to Shakti Ghosal. Thanks, Shakti. :)

By: Shakti Ghosal

Shakti Ghosal — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 06:27:38 +0000

One helluva relevant and thoughtprovoking post.

Thank you.

Shakti