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[quote=Anonymous]It comes and goes.  Generally, if there is a thread that gets a certain number of responses it shows up on the "Hottest Topics" feed and we get comments from people who don't realize they are responding on the special needs board and some of those can be harsh.

It is also very difficult to read tone.  Some people write succinctly and to the point but their intent is not harsh- it just read that way.

One of the phrases I learned in college that illustrates this is  "I did not sleep with your husband."  If you emphasize a different word in the the sentence the meaning of the whole sentence changes.

[i]I[/i] did not sleep with your husband.
I did not [i]sleep[/i] with your husband.
I did not sleep with [i]your[/i] husband.
I did not sleep with your [i]husband[b].

So, if a post rubs me the wrong way, I try to see if I am reading in tone or meaning that isn't intended.  That said, some posts are indeed meant to ruffle feathers and get a negative strong reaction.  Those we need to ignore and report (this is the hard part IME).  Jeff is very good about deleting posts that are obviously mean spirited, but he can only do that if we report it.

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