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.

NO.

Leave it right here where it belongs.

Stop trying to pimp your silly little website by complaining about personal attacks.

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!

 

 

 

 

 

 

'When you attack somebody on JU, not only do you violate the Terms of Service (which you did read, didn't you?), you also detract from everyone's experience.'

(My emphasis.) And who the hell are you, erathoniel, to tell people they're not allowed to enjoy the experience of occupying prime ringside seats at a good, old-fashioned slanging match?

Seriously, there is a fundamental and - to most contributors - obvious difference between suffering a 'personal attack' and merely having your opinions, claims, logic, thought processes etc. called into question. You need to learn what this is, and not go scampering off shrieking hysterical charges of rule book violation each and every time your precious world view is challenged.

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.

Personal attacks have always had a place on JU. I can't even remember a time when there weren't a few floating around.

You might not like it, but most JUers seem to enjoy a bit of personal conflict every now and again. The best thing to do if you're not a fan is to ignore it.

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.

Ouch, almost sound like you were looking for the right moment to write this comment SanCho. Remind me not to get on your bad side, LOL.

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

Yep, definitely brown.

Is this a racist comment? I have green eyes.

Everytime I read a lula post, I can swear I hear a religious fugue... just a thought.

Is that such a bad thing?

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

Those are my favorite kinds.

To myself: "Say nothing, don't start, keep your mouth to yourself, be nice, be nice, be nice..."



Seriously, Erathoniel, this is like that "Comment Deletion" article I spammed. Writing stuff like this just makes me want to do EXACTLY what you tell me not to. However, lest I get banned, I will not say the mean things just dying to come out. And no, they're not there in my head because I mean them, but because I know it'll bug you.

Geez, get over it.

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.