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Posted - 2006.02.27 12:24:00 -
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 Originally by: Grimwalius d'Antan
If this is an opinion you believe in, you might be crazy and sociopathic. It is the other way around.
Not that we're prone to making ridiculously over-the-top pronouncements in THIS forum, gods no... 
Originally by: Grimwalius d'Antan
Only a few consists of people who hate eachother, just as it is with any group of friends or a work place. People might have disputes, but they never resolve to verbal abuse unless they are socially incompetent.
That's very simplistic. You assume that people who're abusive to each other hate each other - at least, that's how I read what you wrote here. But amiable abuse is often a relatively everyday part of working relationships. I don't say it always occurs - it depends on the personalities involved. But contrary to what the strictly politically-correct lobby might say, it can actually serve a useful purpose, if tensions can be released through good-natured ribbing and banter, rather than everybody having to be on best, eggshells behaviour all the time. And there's a lot of different kinds of dispute. Where it's a heated, angry dispute, yes, you're right it's better to tackle it as civilly as possible, and those who're UNABLE to do so are open to criticism for being socially inept. But where it's a mild dispute between good friends or established colleagues, there're a lot of ways it might be approached.
As far as corp chat is concerned, what you've stated above is no less your opinion ("It is the other way around") than Alliaanna's statement that you responded to. Maybe some day CCP will produce statistics for this (here's hoping they don't bother), but until then we've all of us only got our own experience, and therefore our own opinion, to go on.
So is abuse in corp chat right? Sometimes it's okay, sometimes it's not. Like so many things in law, it depends on the intent behind it. If the intent is clearly to hurt or offend, then it's not right and should be dealt with by the corp, or petitioned if they won't. If someone doesn't like abusive language then a small corp should be able to discuss the problem and come to a compromise. A large corp should be responsible enough to automatically take account of the fact that some of its members might be sensitive to this sort of thing. |