Quote Originally Posted by Arcon View Post
People often don't intend to be rude or offensive, but others interpret it that way regardless. Sometimes your intentions and other people's perceptions differ. Excerpt from the forum rules:

- Since you cannot see each other on the forum, your words may be taken the wrong way or may have a negative emotional affect on others. Please try to maintain a polite manner and review your entry before you post.

People often take things personally when they shouldn't. While this certainly isn't someone's fault for posting (and it's happened in here too), they should still try to put themselves in the reader's shoes and try to see what it may look like to them.
I think that the onus falls mostly on the reader rather than the poster, especially when considering the posts in this thread and the ones in the haste thread. For the most part every reply to Naturebeckles near the beginning of the thread were very polite and just trying to explain why what she was saying was wrong. It was actually her who started the bashing, name-calling, and insulting.

Really, readers have to stop being so darned sensitive to being corrected.

I think that this is something that has become part of our society today. It has become impolite and rude to correct someone, even if they are incorrect.