You can avoid the personal attacks - dont allow commenting. JU is not only a personal blog but a community. And other than in fairy tales, no community is perfectly harmonious and pleasant. So you can restrict commenting on your blog, not comment on others, and yes, then avoid it. As the TOU clearly state that users cannot flame users by name in forum articles (comments are a gray area).

But as this is not a fairy tale, dont expect not to be flamed. Just wear asbestos underdaks.

You're absolutely right Erath.

Some people just can't get along with others and that's the way it is here on JU.

It's the dark side of the beast that's in every one of us.  

I personally find it most unpleasant reading people attacking one another, not to mention it tends to ruin an otherwise  good discussion.  

DrGuy gave some good advice...there are ways to handle it.

One way to resolve the problem is by simply not responding in kind....My mom would say turn the other cheek....surely, you can dig that!

 

 

 

 

 

 

What about all those times you've personally attacked others, Lula? Don't think you're the perfect little angel here, who's not guilty of being just as black a kettle as the rest of us.

I love your constant, blatant, overt hypocrisy. Makes my day sometimes.

LOL, leave it to the resident crybaby to complain about personal attacks. Of course his hypocrisy is amazing when he criticizes people for detracting others from the topic of the article when doing these personal attacks all the while he responds to every single one with his own brand of attacks.

Take your current religious buddy's advice and just ignore, or block your articles from comments. Otherwise, grow up.

Oh, btw, these TOS rules you keep blabbering about, it's up to the discretion of the admin(s) to decide whether your complaints are valid. Those rules, as mentioned by them before, or a guideline and not an absolute (like your mentality). So they will handle the complaints as they see fit in accordance with their understand and interpretation of thes TOS rules.

If the admins of this site were to take the TOS rules word for word they may as well shut the site down since they would probably have to ban most of their members. But I can't expect anything less ridiculous and ludicrous coming from you.

If you don't like getting burned, stop putting your hands in the fire.

And I'm pretty sure rectum-for-brain sounds like a difference in opinion to everyone else.

Is this a racist comment? I have green eyes.

Is that such a bad thing?

By personal attacks, I mean the "Rot in Hell", "worm", "moron", "rectum-for-brain" variety.

Thank you for defining what you mean by personal attacks.

Attacking an opponent's character, or his motives for believing something usually occur when the "attacker" can't refute or disprove a point made in the debate, discussion or argument.

You also forgot when the opponent is pigheaded, hardheaded, close-minded and also a crybaby. It isn't always about refuting the other person opinion you no. You also have to admit some people are just to stubborn to even take an idea into consideration. Now while i would rather avoid the name calling because I usually want to debate a topic, even if it's a heated debate, some people just deserve to be insulted because they are too thick-headed to be making any kind of argument or debate.

 

Very simple Lula, and erath. You don't want your points to be contradicted? I suggest you stick to your own articles and block them from any comments. Otherwise deal with the fact that not everyone thinks like either one of you do. Regardless what you may wanna think and believe, yor opinions are not absiolute because you are nothing but mere humans, just like the rest of us. Only God is absolute and as humans prone to mistakes because we are not perfect, our own opinions can be questioned by ourselves from time to time.

there are NO TERMS OF SERVICE, idjit! I guess you have not read them because they do NOT EXCIST! So quite whining about people breaking rules you obviously have NOT READ ABOUT!

Incidentally, it is disingenuous for you to illustrate your point by quoting yourself, erathoniel. The only person who has used the expression 'rectum-for-brain' here is YOU.

I used the terms 'rectum' and 'brain'. I did so in a different context, which I fully explained the first time you bleated about it. Either you have wilfully misunderstood, or you truly are as mentally incompetent as this 'insult' - one of your own fabrication - would suggest.

I made it, so I get it. It was made to illustrate a point. This has since been spelled out to you, obviously to no avail.

I take it all back. You truly are an idiot.

Welcome to the real world. Reality and life...is what it is.  Not fair.  In my time here, I have seen many things, stupid arguments over nothing. Name calling you couldn't believe, continuously bringing stuff up from the past / dead...only to name a small few. 

Eh. 

This is what you get.  As far as Terms of Service...well thats about as good as a box of poo if you ask anyone around here.  As you will spend more time on here, youll notice more and more of a bias on various subjects, beliefs...etc.  Thats fine, this site is owned by a corporation and from what has been posted before by Brad, it was not intended to be a blog site per se, more of a website to post about all his games and whoopidy doos. We are just a by-product.

But yeah, people pull all sorts of crap on here...daily.  But you can either ignore it, or make it worse by continuing.  Youll also notice over time that some people apparently live off of this website.  And most times, when someone forms a bad opinion of you, that stays around forever. 

It is what it is.  I got to the point where I would write tons (LW refers to them as diatribes) in my replies, defending my positions, thoughts...etc.  And then I realized that this site was taking up waaaayyy too much of my time when it could be better spent by staring at the Wyoming grass growing in winter.