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Kaliko -> RE: Biases on collarme? (11/11/2011 9:05:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: gungadin09
Do you think there's a bias against honesty? Do you think the biggest bias around here is for, or against, individual posters, instead of genders or orientations?
pam
Maybe, technically, "bias" is the right word, but it doesn't feel right to me used in these examples.
People get their feathers ruffled with honesty when it's presented in a manner which...well...ruffles their feathers. It's not the honesty....it's the delivery. Some people like to be rough and confrontational, some people like to be blunt and succinct, some people type up walls o' text. It's just what we respond to positively, I think, more than what we respond to negatively. So, a bias against honesty? No, but maybe just a preference for discussion in a certain manner.
And an inclination to respect or throw out the opinions of certain posters is based on one's experience reading that person's posts. I view a bias as being the responsibility of the person who is biased. I view someone who has ticked me off enough to not want to read their posts as the responsibility of said poster.
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