on 10/26/11 8:28 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) at nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Risker, 26/10/2011 07:25:
You've treated him like a five-year-old and made him sit on the naughty step - and let's be honest, that barely works with five-year-olds. Treating an adult in that way can be counted on to have an even more dramatically perverse effect than it does on a child.
This typical pattern gets particularly interesting when a teenage sysop blocks a sixty years old user.
Uncivil, name-calling behavior is a substitute for substance in a dialogue; and is very often used as bait. The healthiest, and most effective response to behavior like this is silence - and to move along as though it never occurred. The offender becomes isolated, and the behavior will die from a lack of fuel.
If you feel the need to hit someone, then do - with hard ideas and solid reasoning.
Marc Riddell