A gentle reminder

[Moderators]

Would everyone please re read the forum guidelines and ensure that posts are kept within the spirit of this DG. We do not enjoy removing posts that give pleasure to the majority, because a minority are intent on being rude to others or causing arguments. We will however continue removing posts and threads as required.

Intelligent Horsemanship provides this DG free of charge for us all to enjoy. We must respect that while individuals will always have differences of opinion, the board is not the place for confrontation or airing of personal grievances against other members.

Regards, Moderator

[Moderators]

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[Persianhorse]

Hi,
Totally agreed ,
One thing I promised my self is not to use any names of the posters which I do not like their Idea it is a free world and freedom of speech as long as we don't get rude to each other therefor by not naming others no one would be upset and we have kept the high spirit of the forum.
In other hand as long as our Ideas are NON - VIOLENT there is no hard feelings in the most negative way I could be wrong by suggesting something if my suggestions are non violent there is nothing negative , in the end this is an open forum .

Naming other people is the main reason which makes posts and threads RUDE and the person which his/her name has been mentioned wants to defend her/him self and that is the starting point of negative arguments .

With great respect to you all,
PH.

[magicmisty]

very well said PH!!! lol

[Persianhorse]

I am glad at least I made you LOL.
I hope you always be as much happy as you are now.
PH.

[montezuma]

Feb 1, 2008 22:51:56 GMT 1 Persianhorse said:

Hi,
Totally agreed ,
One thing I promised my self is not to use any names of the posters which I do not like their Idea it is a free world and freedom of speech as long as we don't get rude to each other therefor by not naming others no one would be upset and we have kept the high spirit of the forum.
In other hand as long as our Ideas are NON - VIOLENT there is no hard feelings in the most negative way I could be wrong by suggesting something if my suggestions are non violent there is nothing negative , in the end this is an open forum .

Naming other people is the main reason which makes posts and threads RUDE and the person which his/her name has been mentioned wants to defend her/him self and that is the starting point of negative arguments .

With great respect to you all,
PH.

I would add that it is not always necessary to mention a person by name for them to be identified and in some respects this is even more underhand if the person does not use the forum but has friends, acquaintances or clients that do.

My son is qualifying as a barrister and I asked him to find out whether anyone would be liable for prosecution if they found that someone's ill-advised comment had a detrimental effect on them. Having checked with two or three well-qualified colleagues he confirmed my thoughts that not only the person making the comment could be prosecuted but also the owner of a discussion group and the internet provider of the discussion group could be at blame.

I suppose the answer to this is - if you haven't got anything nice to say - don't bother.

[varkie]

Problem comes, surely, in defining what is nice, and what is disagreement, or discussion, surely?

If a poster posts something that I don't agree with, I should be able to disagree with them and give my reasons why.

Some people seem to struggle to differentiate between differences of opinion and personal attacks.