Reply #425: For one thing, they're not something I would introduce into a discussion

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on the whole rec/unrec issue.

For example, I would not jump in and call people "paranoid". Often I just read the craziness and go read other stuff without commenting. Even then, there's a big difference, I think, in commenting on the atmosphere of paranoia and outright calling someone paranoid. The latter is something I would not do.

As for my mental image of screeching chimps...well, I can't help it if that's the cartoon that gets played in my head when I see the craziness going on. Again, I would not make the situation worse by actually calling a bunch of people screeching chimps because it would be clear whom I meant to call chimps.

Whereas here, in a general way, I'm commenting on how things appear to me. In other words, if the fur doesn't fit, then don't wear it.


Sometimes "insults" are in the mind of the beholder. I knew one unfortunate person (on a different site) who was so paranoid that if anyone used the phrase "some people", she was POSITIVE they were talking about her. It happened with me a number of times. Many times I was actually referring to people in my real life, but she was convinced it was all about HER.

It got to be really tiresome dealing with her issues.

It's the same here. People rec or unrec according to likes, dislikes, mistakes, being blind without glasses, etc. But people love to conjure up a mysterious band of Freeper Trolls who run around giggling and unreccing from their little Command Centers in their moms' basements.

Paranoid and tiresome.