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>wrote:
>> Well, you are a silly little twit, aren't you?
>Plonk.
>Disagreement is encouraged. Unfounded suspicion may be considered an
>understandable mistake. Name-calling is well outside the boundary of
>civilized behavior.

> Responding to Square Peg's post is a flagrant Starguard violation, but
> my writing-teacher hat keeps jumping off the coat rack, so I've posted
> a reply in rec.crafts.textiles.misc, which was created for posts that
> don't fit other groups in the rec.crafts.textiles hierarchy, and which
> (at the moment) has no conversations to disrupt.
>

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> Starguard? More information please.

> On Thu, 07 May 2009 23:45:47 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures
>
>> Starguard? More information please.
>
> Snitched from a quoted quote and posted without the author's
> permission:
>
>
> Starguard's Guaranteed Fire Extinguisher
>
> A very wise Fidonet system operator once told me her "magic formula"
> for putting out flamewars. I have since posted it to two newsgroups
> and seen it praised by their administrators. And it's so SIMPLE....
>
> Take the premise that chronic flamers have an ego problem. Consider
> what result they hope to achieve: to get people "going", to get a
> reaction. So! What to do? Follow this very simple plan:
>
> Ignore them.
>
> If you feel you absolutely MUST answer them, answer them only ONCE, no
> matter what else they reply with. (I don't care if you have to bite
> your lip, kick your desk, get up and run around the room...sit on your
> hands. Deny them the satisfaction!)
>
> If you DO break down and answer them: refuse to stoop to their level,
> no matter what the provocation. (Why should you allow them to drag
> you down to their childish level?!)
>
> (I might add that part of the genius of Starguard's Plan is that
> answering ONLY ONCE forces you to make a careful, well-reasoned
> rebuttal...try to hew to this part of the formula. She got her
> inspiration from a rule West Point gave up because it was TOO
> effective....)
>
> But most of all: IGNORE them.
> That's the worst torture of all to an egotist!
>
> And it WORKS.
>
> Suze Hammond
> tri...@agora.rain.com
> with thanks to "Starguard" SysOp of "the Overworked Dragon BBS",
> Portland, OR
>
>
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