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<blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 8515413" data-attributes="member: 6807784"><p>Because of the implications of your words.</p><p></p><p>If two people are having a conversation wherein they discuss their issues with something, and you go into their conversation and say, with a smilie-face emoji, that you have no problem because you get SO MUCH enjoyment out of the activity that its flaws don't matter, you are being demeaning. This is demeaning because you are telling these people that their complaints don't matter because you have a lot of fun with it playing with your friends, and that so long as you can do that, you don't care about their complaints.</p><p></p><p>That is a fine position to take, but specifically telling people that is no different from saying that their opinions and experiences don't matter to you because they aren't yours, so why should they even bother saying them? That is the implication made from your words.</p><p></p><p>I don't think you, Oofta, are a malicious person by the way. I quite like you, even though we butt heads a lot in these threads, but the language + emoji with your earlier post will almost always read as passive aggressive demeaning, even if that were not your intent.</p><p></p><p>Note I'm not trying to backseat mod here. I'm just stating that responding to people by nullifying their experiences is not the way for any of us to enjoy this conversation, and saying that people's problems don't matter to you because you're getting fun out of playing with your friends so nothing else matters is a nullification of someone else's experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shardstone, post: 8515413, member: 6807784"] Because of the implications of your words. If two people are having a conversation wherein they discuss their issues with something, and you go into their conversation and say, with a smilie-face emoji, that you have no problem because you get SO MUCH enjoyment out of the activity that its flaws don't matter, you are being demeaning. This is demeaning because you are telling these people that their complaints don't matter because you have a lot of fun with it playing with your friends, and that so long as you can do that, you don't care about their complaints. That is a fine position to take, but specifically telling people that is no different from saying that their opinions and experiences don't matter to you because they aren't yours, so why should they even bother saying them? That is the implication made from your words. I don't think you, Oofta, are a malicious person by the way. I quite like you, even though we butt heads a lot in these threads, but the language + emoji with your earlier post will almost always read as passive aggressive demeaning, even if that were not your intent. Note I'm not trying to backseat mod here. I'm just stating that responding to people by nullifying their experiences is not the way for any of us to enjoy this conversation, and saying that people's problems don't matter to you because you're getting fun out of playing with your friends so nothing else matters is a nullification of someone else's experience. [/QUOTE]
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