Originally posted by vince69:
lets see...
if Ignore.... then will this means more bullets on the way ...like silence = consent or admittance of guilt???
You see it that way? Many times I ignore people, no matter what they say when it is blatantly stupid. Sure, they will keep on saying their blatantly stupid things and I keep on ignoring them, until I want to have some fun with them and show them how stupid they are.
Originally posted by vince69:
if defend... then this means waste of efforts doing meaningless things... and still not resolve anything, as this won't stop a persistent name caller... if anything, this will entertain, even encourage more flaming...
either way... its lose/lose situation.
The way I see this is... a major revamp is needed... but then this will take a lot of time and effort, something that not many of us can affort to do...
If your defend yourself skillfully, then what you say will not happen. The stupid people will have to resort to name-calling when they lose. Name calling, you can totally ignore because that is just primary school mentality and nobody will say that "silence = consent or admittance of guilt" because everyone will recognize how stupid the one doing the name-calling is.
Like for example, they call you a "toad". Let them keep on calling and see if people think that "silence = consent or admittance of guilt" or they think that the name-caller has a primary school mentality.
But if they say, "when you say this and that, you, because you ignore that and that, you are sotong." "Sotong" in this case is not name calling because what it means is that you are blur and they have spelled out why they conclude that you are blur.
In the first instance, "toad" is name-calling because the name caller did not say why you are a toad, but the second is not name calling because it was a conclusion and the person explained how he came to that conclusion.
If the reasons are true, then "sotong" is true! If the reasons are not true, then "sotong" is not true!
They way I see it is that, there are many people that have no idea how to make a good argument, understand what a good argument is.
Those that are simply giving their opinions and without arguing why their opinions make sense (one-liner opinions) just ignore them.
They are anonymous nicks and who cares about their opinion when you have no way of knowing how they arrived at their opinions?
Those that take their opinions to heart are stupid people because they do not know how that chap came to his opinions.
Stupid people, you ignore.
I am sure that you can think of many examples, since you have been here a while, those that are incorrigible baseless opinion givers. Just ask them, why do you say that and it will shut them up.
If they dare to explain, it will expose their stupidity.