My personal opinion as to something they should add to BP.net

[wilomn]

wow, like a gun? lol someone takes the internet WAY too seriously. Not that i'm agreeing with the OP but dang...there are way too many people out there to expect that we're all going to get along. Kind of makes it even harder when people take typing online so seriously.
"It's no longer in your control" "collaeral damage" "Think of it like firing a gun"

Wow. Seriously? They are words, that can be construed any way. IN any way, in any light. It's more like art...you bring your own history and interpretation to what you are reading. Generally it's not as serious as people take it, and really, who on earth other than your friends and family are worth your time to consider internet posts THAT important? Surely i'm not the only one who thinks that. For instance is even saying this going to freak out a bunch of people? If so, you guys seriously need a life.

Actually, I disagree. Mostly. If you are unable to put in words the thoughts you'd like to share, then perhaps you should not be using the internet. For me, if my words are "construed any way" other than as I meant them to be construed, then I have failed. While an interpretation is largely up to the reader, giving that reader something to go on is the job of the writer. And, if that reader misconstrues what the writer has written, then it is, in my experience, often because the reader either doesn't have the experience to understand what was written, doesn't care enough to actually put effort into what the writer was trying to convey, has an ax to grind either with the writer personally, the topic in general, or is simply not intelligent enough to understand what was written.

YOU ASSume much. I seriously doubt that anyone reading this thread will "freak out" at what you have said. Unless, as I suspect, like you they are 17 and know all there is to know now and forever because ''it's always been that way."

Do you understand ballistics? Once that projectile leaves the muzzle, the shooter no longer has control of it. It therefore, behooves the shooter/writer to be as clear and concise as possible to prevent those whose limitations, such as yourself, from getting it wrong, misconstruing, or just flat out not understanding what was written.

Just because YOU don't think it matters does not mean that it matters not. I take words fairly serious as a rule. I know I am not alone in this. You seem to think that a writer bears little, if any, responsibility for they represent by what they write. Perhaps, for those too uneducated or willfully ignorant, this has some validity. However, for those who think, who put time into examining ideas which may be new, or old but seen from a new perspective, for those who CARE about what the words mean not only now, but in the future, it matters quite a bit. If you want to rant and rave and say stupid things or just make a sphincter of yourself, you are free to do so. You are also free to learn several lessons from that behavior, as the OP did. You may want to give that some thought and see if it might not have a personal application for you as well.

You are what you eat, you are remembered by what you say, you are known by your history, which, as long as the internet is alive, will never go away. Think twice, post once. It saves you from the struggle to get the odour of your feet out of your mouth.