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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6217585" data-attributes="member: 6750039">I believe that this is more than an opinion - but you, of course, are allowed yours.Yeah, the point is that it isn't my fault so there's no need for them to take whatever someone else did to them out on me.  That's not civil.Fair enough.Well I suppose that's technically accurate.  However, that sort of behavior is something I'd not define as indicative of an environment where civil discourse is the goal.  Shunning people is not civil.  Interestingly enough, I have answers for you: Enough have done it, obviously, to have colored my perception of this place especially in light of what some of the members have said about their expectations of behavior as these two experiences are contradictory.  I don't care about the other hundreds and thousands of people who visit this site as I have already explained that I do not interact with them.  These few matter precisely because they are the few that I do interact with.You've seen it.  Tell me, does what you've seen strike you as civil?  Reporting posts isn't my style - and yes, I understand what that means for me.  I'd much rather, I dunno, have a conversation about what's bugging whoever's got the problem.  It is literally impossible to have civil discourse without the discourse, after all.  <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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