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Originally Posted by raybark
... for example, the threads that (primarily) DavidCampen, Kentucky, and I kept going for a while - greenhouse misting, for one - even though they were very informative and mostly based upon fact, the depth of the discussion and fringes of contention we ran along at times (I was halfway expecting a "Jane, you ignorant slut" comment in some of them) may have seemed a bit intimidating to some. I am not, for a moment, suggesting we abandon that sort of thing, as open discussions of thought processes and the facts of the subject-at-hand are the surest way to learn from each other, but we should probably think more about how we come across to others.
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Who, me? I was being moderately mild there. I do have to calibrate my tone for each forum; I belong to some where only subject matter experts dare to post and others that are extremely friendly towards anyone.