<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by GUWonder:
PS. Calling me a communist would be a joke. I love money and personalized financial returns way too much.</font>
With this point, you made me realize what prompted to me start this thread. I think it had been in the back of my mind and you just brought it forward.
Flaming is not as dangerous as it might seem. The person being flamed is not the one who is injured -- the person who does the flaming is.
When ftomnibox wrote about me that "Calling people ragheads, terrorists, or murderers is hate speech and is against the TOS...OMNI is not a forum for spewing hatred and right-wing ideology. Freerepublic.com is the place for that if one is a neanderthal", I did not respond.
A number of people came to my defense. Ftomnibox was the one who was looked down upon, not me.
Indeed, had my post not been removed, I would never have entered that thread at all.
If I were to write that "GUWonder is a miserable Commie ratfink," I would (rightfully) find the wrath of most FTers upon my head. Nobody would think less of you, only of me.
Yet if my post were to be removed, I would be free to post elsewhere without people knowing what kind of person I am.
Isn't it better to keep the posts, allow the readers to decide if it is a flame, and to have them answer the flamer?