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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5780415" data-attributes="member: 54877">Well, a big part of that is that by the time you were back posting, there was a lot of baggage on that term, too. And some of that baggage caused some hair trigger responses on both sides. I saw it nail a few innocent new posters on other forums, and hard. "Hey, let me wander out into this open mine field with nothing currently happening and shine a spotlight on myself that makes me superficially look a bit like a troll to two groups that had to take a pause to go get more ammo. What could possibly go wrong?" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> So I tend to hold my fire on new folks, and let the mods sort out the occasional troll in their midst trying to look like one. (They always out themselves eventually.) But if I'm coming down too hard on any regulars, just tell me. I wouldn't be coming on that strong if I didn't respect their position enough to engage with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (And no, that doesn't mean I don't respect a position if I don't engage. It might, but more likely it means I didn't see it or simply am not that interested.)  And the same goes the other way, of course. As long as you want to engage my points, feel free to say it as forceful as you need to get your point across.</blockquote>

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