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Subject:	Re: stopping topics vs. dealing with troublemakers and nonconstructive participants
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:45:18 GMT
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David Eaton wrote: > > Ultimately, if I make statements "without sufficient justification" - you > > can quite easily show my error. > > Very true. However, they are often repeat offenses. Showing people's error > repeatedly without apparent improvement or result quickly becomes pointless. > Hence a tendancy on several people's parts to ignore your posts. Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Now, can YOU and DK finally beat a clue into your heads, and realize that you are never going to get Scott to admit to his errors, and IGNORE HIM? I don't know how many times people have mentioned in here that that is the only way to deal with him. Don't be as thick as he is - listen to people's advice, especially when it is coming from people that have beat their head against the Scott Arthur Brick Wall before. I put him on Ignore long ago, and it certainly has raised my enjoyment of this group... except when some of you numbskulls can't take a hint and continue to try to straighten him out. He's permanently bent, deal with it, move on. -- Tom Stangl ***http://www.vfaq.com/ ***DSM Visual FAQ home ***http://ba.dsm.org/ ***SF Bay Area DSMs

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		Re: stopping topics vs. dealing with troublemakers and nonconstructive participants
(...) Does "bent" mean in the US what is does in the UK? Scott A (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: stopping topics vs. dealing with troublemakers and nonconstructive participants
Hey Tom, It's hard to work against ones upbringing. My Papa always told me, "Son", he'd say, "No matter what you do, do your best. If it doesn't work out, well so what? At least you did your best." The idea is for me to do what I can. If the (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: stopping topics vs. dealing with troublemakers and nonconstructive participants
(...) What, no response? Example of lack of justification. (...) Yes I did. Admitting fault is better than not admitting fault. It is not as good as never having acted wrongly in the first place, though. (...) You both impersonated someone by (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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