Quote Originally Posted by Rob View Post
I also think there is so much room for interpretation in text that people can come of as rude or mean even if they had no intention in doing so.
I tend to respond in very direct language. I find if someone is acting out of ignorance that brevity and simple language is the best way to communicate with them. I'm also a wildly sarcastic person by nature. These things combined requires you to be thick skinned to be my friend in real life and makes me look flat out rude on the net. I don't really care much because I value the opinions of the people that can cut through the nonsense and understand what I'm saying. In a lot of cases, especially with people who are.. let's call it 'prone to ignorance,' I have found sarcasm to be very effective in encouraging them to reconsider a different perspective. Sometimes people need their own irony shoved in their face to see its flaws. To other people, that approach breaks their fragile little ego. I think those people should toughen up and I will consider myself instrumental in their acclimation to world. Very high and mighty of me, I know. /soapbox