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I am thoroughly sick and tired of seeing the "it's just a message board" argument on here. Yes, indeed, it is a message board, and I doubt anyone on here is lacking enough in the brains department to notice that. But the rules of polite communication are the same on here as they are in any other realm (face-to-face, letters, public speeches) direct insults to other people are out of line. Disagreement is fine but attacking the person is uncalled for. It doesn't matter if this is "just" the Internet. It doesn't matter how old or new someone is. It doesn't matter whether they're your buddy or a stranger. And words don't magically lose their power to cheer up, offend, inform or piss off simply because they're typed.
And if this site matters so little to a GCer, why are they here? Surely none of our lives are so empty as to hang out somewhere we get absolutely nothing from. Whether we're here to make friends, start a fight, learn something, network, brag about our lives, or whatever, we're obviously getting something from it or we wouldn't bother. So it's hypocritical to take others to task for admitting they get some value from Greek Chat and to pick on them just because they get more or less from it than you do. If "words on a screen" from a stranger are so irrelevant to you, why bother replying to words on a screen from another stranger?
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