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 Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:14 pm
In the last week, after a particularly bad bout of behaviour, I realised that too often if someone doesn't agree with me, I insult them. Now, it's fine for me to have feelings about particular users, but I really shouldn't be letting it influence how I address them.
So, my belated New Year's resolution is to be civil to my opponents.
How do you think you could improve your skills, or are you all perfect already?
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:08 pm
I need to be more conistant with sourcing. I have a lot of random knowledge and I don't always remember where it comes from. I need to be more care remembering where I heard things and sourcing it back.
Also, I should probably challenge myself more. A lot of times I argue with people or in groups where I know my knowledge is superior to theirs, so my chances of winning either out of legitimate knowledge or out of a technicality are heightened. I should be more open to competing and post with people who would be more of a stretch.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:45 pm
Being civil to certain opponents would be my resolution, too. Some people just write things that irritate me and then I write something irritable back.
Vicious cycle, it is.
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:54 am
I think the most important -- and hardest -- part of debating is remembering that your personal emotions need to be left at the door. You pick a position, and you support it with fact and rhetoric, thus you should be able to defend a position in which you don't actually believe.
But we all tend to gravitate toward topics in which we're personally interested and about which we have strong opinions, so it's all too easy for your passions to take the lead and for people to see who can be the most condescending. And while there is a place for some level of condesention in debate (it could tie in with rhetoric in some instances), you've got to have more in your arsenal than just that! xp
I dunno, when I start to find that I'm starting to talk down to people until they can prove they deserve respect, I try to occupy myself elsewhere for awhile so I can cool off.
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Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:31 pm
Missy Wyvern Being civil to certain opponents would be my resolution, too. Some people just write things that irritate me and then I write something irritable back. Vicious cycle, it is. I can relate to this scenerio myself. It is hard to ignore an irking comment but for the sake of diplomacy I have learned to contain myself.
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:52 pm
Finish doing my research, even though I find it impossible to restrain myself from hitting 'submit' sometimes.
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 8:40 am
Pretty much everything that was mentioned, actually, to different extents.
I rarely cite my sources - because I usually don't remember where I read whatever it was, and it's very rarely an online source. I simply know that I read it somewhere, and from a credible source because I don't read anything that isn't.
I have a tendency to correct people's spelling. I never intend it as a personal attack, but I need to learn to leave my love of the English language - and my hatred of what I view as mistreatment of said language - at the door, because everyone views it as a personal attack.
Refrain from personal attacks. My spelling corrections are never personal attacks, but that doesn't mean other things aren't, and I need to work on that. When someone leads me in circles with endless statements of "prove it", "I don't believe you", or simply repeating their side without, apparently, even reading my response, I find it incredibly tempting to e-scream at them.
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:23 pm
Yes, sometimes I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut when two or three people are going against someone else with my personal opinion. I have a tendency to unintentionally change the subject to the direct rights and wrongs rather than the convincing argument.
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