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<blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 5996287" data-attributes="member: 17106">Poll definitions aside, this thread is visible and votable to anyone with an ENW account. Myself and the others who posted above were pointing out the hypocrisy of telling anyone who doesn't fall within a certain group not to participate in your discussion about how other people use what you believe is divisive rhetoric.Perhaps, but with the right (or wrong) intent, the former can also become:&quot;the user is attempting to gratuitously provoke/goad. &quot;&quot;the user is gratuitously 'preaching to the choir/converted'.&quot;&quot;the user is high-fiving/chest-bumping with other detractors or some other form of catharsis.&quot;It's largely a matter of context and intent. A lot of &quot;legitimate&quot; mechanical discussion has, as I noted above, taken on added meaning and become inflammatory. The point being that the phrase you've singled out is just one small example of a rather large problem (dismissiveness, incivility, etc.).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ahnehnois, post: 5996287, member: 17106"] Poll definitions aside, this thread is visible and votable to anyone with an ENW account. Myself and the others who posted above were pointing out the hypocrisy of telling anyone who doesn't fall within a certain group not to participate in your discussion about how other people use what you believe is divisive rhetoric. Perhaps, but with the right (or wrong) intent, the former can also become: "the user is attempting to gratuitously provoke/goad. " "the user is gratuitously 'preaching to the choir/converted'." "the user is high-fiving/chest-bumping with other detractors or some other form of catharsis." It's largely a matter of context and intent. A lot of "legitimate" mechanical discussion has, as I noted above, taken on added meaning and become inflammatory. The point being that the phrase you've singled out is just one small example of a rather large problem (dismissiveness, incivility, etc.). [/QUOTE]

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