Unjustified Posting Attacks

[nigel]

nigel

To russ and flecc sometimes i find it difficult to follow written instructions such as throttle mods and handlebar grips would it be possibile to show some pictures to help with understanding how to do job thanks nigel.

 

[flecc]

I do put some photos in my website articles Nigel, but it isn't practical to do it all with photos as so many people still have dial up services and the pages take for ever to load for them. Also some things need someone to do the operation being illustrated while the photo is taken, and I can't usually organise that though I do sometimes do a juggling act as in this photo where I took the shot at one arms length while stretching the frame:

Not easy though!

In this site I illustrate with photos more often than any other user I think, but I try to limit it a bit for the same reasons, causing dial-up and slow broadband problems.

Also, I think a photo sequence in a thread could be irritating for some as it could take up a whole web page.
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[flecc]

One thing that is missing from this form of contact is body language so I think it is good practice to imagine you are face to face with the other person and how you would speak to them!

Although that's generally true Russ, and I prefer to respond in friendly and humourous ways, there's the fact that reasonable people respond to reasonable treatment, but unreasonable people don't.

The sort I'm speaking of don't respond.

My earliest example in this forum who I mentioned before as targeting me with more then half his posts is an example. As it was the first time it happened in this forum, I responded politely and patiently to each and every occasion of sniping and criticism, but as usual it was taken as a sign of weakness and that type of posting continued for a long time.

Eventually I wasn't going to put up with it any more, and it was then that I very publicly and aggressively bit his head off and he finally moderated his behaviour.

I believe that when someone is very clearly and unmistakably coming in behaving in this way that it's best nipped in the bud rather than allowed to develop and poison more.

The last person who prompted this thread was not only clearly targeting me with sniping on three subjects in two simultaneous threads. Seeing the nature of his approach, I checked his very few postings since recently joining before I responded and could see that they were mainly combative and sometimes with an aggressive edge. It was clear to me that only one kind of response was suitable, a firm one.
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