I guess I am a poor judge of this topic. I made a choice to participate in this board a number of years ago and really have not looked at the others since. I made my choice primarily on Dennis' superior construction. I was not willing to post on an arcane system where you could not determine what the thread was about without opening each post.
Recent investigation show the one site posting in the same manner and the other using a system similar to the one Dennis developed.
Tom, being in the opposite to you. I am sure that there is far less aggravating comments there than here. In the area I grew up in there were a lot of DD living in communes. For a lot of them their morals did not improve once they had families. Not necessarily evil but pushing the limit on every liberty.
Each of us come from a different view point. You can not expect somebody that grew up in the backwoods to have the same language set as someone else. I have had heated discussions with Ph.D.s over terminology in my written papers because they had never used a particular word in that context. This is the difference between the Oxford (inclusive) and the Webesters (exclusive) use of language. Unfortunately this thought pattern can extend to a lot of other areas of life if allowed. Reviewing the current norms rather than learning new ideas.
It is very difficult to get a point across clearly in type at the set of times. Without the voice inflections on the single syllable words or parts there, of most of us are lost. The odd disagreement is to be expected.
We all know what we term as offensive language. Growing up in west coast logging towns, standard language at work would probably offend most. When I moved to New England, I was accosted numerous times for swearing using words like Crap. For me it was difficult to take as most did not even know the difference between foul or offensive language and swearing.
I have been guilty of going off on ideological bends as has every one here at one point or other I am sure. Just remember "when you try to teach a pig to sing all you end up doing is aggravating yourself and annoying the pig".

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