Have you ever been rude here in mylot?
By laydee
@laydee (12798)
Philippines
October 27, 2009 10:16pm CST
There are just discussion where we all won't get along nor agree upon, but have you ever been rude here to the point of insulting the person who started the discussion or those who responded against your ideas or thoughts?
I have a few saying that I'm rude or am creating an inappropriate topic but there are times when I just don't get why they say so. Anyhow, as for responses, I have yet to see someone react negatively on my responses so far. Well, perhaps there are people who do, but I just didn't have time to read their responses.
What about you?
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19 responses
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
28 Oct 09
hi laydee I don't think I have ever been rude here, not
intentionally anyway. I have not had any rude responses
since I have been back on mylot except for one woman, and she overstepped her bounds, brought me to tears, and mylot admins deleted her responses.I did not ask them to do this so evidently they felt she had done something really wrong. but other than that all the people who have responded to my discussions have been very kind and very sweet too.
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@mariposaman (2959)
• Canada
28 Oct 09
Apparently 5% of the people rating you did so negatively so you must have at least annoyed some people in your thousands of discussions. That means that 187 people went out of their way to give you a negative rating. Some of these couple of hundred might have thought you rude, although there is no way to tell for sure.
I know at least one person called me rude so I know my comments are not always appreciated. After crying for a half hour and consuming a half a Bavarian chocolate cake I felt better afterwards. I a just kidding of course about the crying although the thought of consuming Bavarian chocolate cake holds some appeal. I tend to have a thick skin which you need if you interact with people on the internet.
I generally try to be polite and helpful, but do not always succeed.
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@mariposaman (2959)
• Canada
29 Oct 09
No I did not see that post by you. I doubt that you can figure out where those negative ratings come from, it would cause a lot of wars on here if people knew who rates negatively. I suspect there are people who get perverse delight in rating people negative. I think I read somewhere that those who mass rate people negative are being tracked and will have consequences by myLot. I have a star rating similar to you, but a few less posts.
I can proudly say I have 62 best responses so it shows I am trying to be helpful and informative.
The guidlines at myLot says you should rate someone positive even if someone disagrees with you. The positive rating should come if you contributed to the discussion, whether agreeing or not. Unfortunately people are using it to punish people who disagree because their nose is out of joint when they do not receive a chorus of "me too" replies.
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@doormouse (4599)
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28 Oct 09
were you responding to my reply,how do you know that 5% rated negative,and could i find out which discussion i was rated negativly for
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@balasri (26537)
• India
28 Oct 09
No.I have never been rude here.If a person is trying to rude with me I just ignore and try to mind my other business here.It is not worth trying to stoop down to the level of some people who don't know the real meaning of a forum and act accordingly.
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@doormouse (4599)
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28 Oct 09
i don't think i've been rude,i know i've been blunt and that may have upset people
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@vandana7 (100617)
• India
28 Oct 09
Hi laydee, there is a grey area between what I would call rude, and what u would call rude. For example, I argued vehemently (as per me rudely) in a discussion about euthanesia. I argued, and the person who started the discussion, countered. It went on for quite a length. I would have thought the young boy would never want to come across me again, but I recd. a best response for that! lol. There are some cases where I do discuss my opinions, a bit strongly, verging on rudeness like stating I dont buy that. Well, I guess, if I had to judge by my standards, yes, a couple of times, I have been a bit rude. :(
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
10 Apr 12
There's a big difference between being rude and fighting for what you believe in. I consider fighting for what you believe in as something that isn't rude, well it may sound like so but I don't think it should be considered rude on the context that you would like to defend your ground.
However, there are some who purposely would try to be rude in order to insult or tick of the person discussing or the person responding. They are particularly doing it on purpose. I guess they're so fed up with their lives that they just want to spread the negativity.
Anyhow, I have never come across you in a debate on something. Perhaps one of these days I would surely see how passionate you are when you want to stand your ground for something you believe in. I just hope that we won't both be irked the to point of avoiding each other. hahaha..
Have a great MyLot experience ahead! Thanks for sharing!
@onlinetreasures (106)
• Philippines
28 Oct 09
I'm still new here in mylot and haven't posted many. all the people that responded to the discussions that i've started sounds friendly and nice. i hope i won't get any rude response in my future post. :)
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@laydee (12798)
• Philippines
10 Apr 12
Oh, it's nice to know that you have tried to keep things clean. I have also tried doing that, however, there are just people here on the Lot who seems to attract negativity and would like to find some heat. I guess regardless what we do to make things clean there will be friction sooner.
Anyhow, how have you been? It's been three years and I hope that you're still on the Lot and enjoying yourself.
Thanks for the thoughts and have a great MyLot experience ahead!
@manong05 (5027)
• Philippines
28 Oct 09
This is something that I try to avoid a lot. Not only being rude but carefully wording my responses that they will not be misread as rude. Interacting in a multi-cultural forum is not an easy one and responses can easily be misinterpreted given the limitations of language on one hand and cultural colors on the other.
Nevertheless, I do get responses which strike me as rude as if the person never really read the topic well and jumped into conclusions right then and there. In a case like this, I was almost tempted to answer back but decided to just hold myself for there is nothing I can do anyway to change the person's character.
People will always take offense no matter how careful we are.
cheers!
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@autumndreamer (3185)
• Philippines
10 Apr 12
I haven't become really rude at other like when we don't agree about something. If we both disagree, I try as much as possible to explain my side politely. But sometimes, thee are other users who have so dumb and stupid about a topic and that's why I say to bad things to them like they're stupid or they're so dumb but that's just in my mind. I never really say that to them here.
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
28 Oct 09
I won't deny it...I've gotten fired up under different discussions and yes gone overboard a bit. When I am wrong and I often am...I am quick to appologize. Other times I just really don't care. As for you...I've been in a lot of your discussions and I have yet to see you being rude. Sometimes some people mistake blatant honest truths for rudeness i think. I don't know. You are not a rude person so I wouldn't worry about it. probably just a misunderstanding would be my guess.
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@Aingealicia (1905)
• United States
29 Oct 09
I have had a few tiffs here and there when attacked first.
Ainge
@xannebull (1793)
• Philippines
29 Oct 09
No i never been rude here in mylot although some of the people here have bad comments about my discussions, well i never rudely responded them because it's nothing personal for me, it's just an exchange of opinions and no opinions that are wrong.
@wookieekyut (673)
• Philippines
29 Oct 09
I have never been rude to anyone here. I am not that type of a person. If there are some here, that's their problem. We are here to particiapte in discussions,meet friends, earn honest money and not to find enemies or making criticisms.
I don't even wanna use the greeting "happy mylotting" anymore, which I just copied from other well wishers. Even that greeting is criticised. Hehe...
@EnglishTeaDuck (862)
• United States
28 Oct 09
I don't believe I have been rude but I believe a couple of people thought I was. I have strongly disagreed with people and I have had one person be extremely rude and personal to me.
I will stand up for something I believe in on here, and stand my ground on a topic I feel strongly about but I try to be careful never to be personal. Unfortunately some people will take you as rude simply because you disagree with them.
@coolcoder (2018)
• United States
28 Oct 09
I've been rude a few times, but I've found that that happens when someone else asks about something that I think should be incredibly obvious (and yes, I know that assumptions can be very bad at times), or can be easily found in the guidelines of MyLot. I'm not proud of what I've said at times, but in the heat of the moment, I often don't bother to think rationally before speaking.
@voldrox (7191)
• India
28 Oct 09
Hi laydee
Being rude... ahem ahem... i have never been rude to anybody, that never means i don't give my honest opinions, being rude is being stubborn, arrogant and not listening to others at all, rude responses i have not received any as well, neither can i be to someone else, when disagreeing with someone there is always a polite way of doing it, being straightforward with it some people take it wrongly and i think they might be taking you as a rude person when there is nothing like that actually, sometimes others don't understand this because they don't know you personally, they way we post things and responses we have them thinking sometimes ... anyways, have a nice day!
@IMEzekieL (498)
•
28 Oct 09
Not sure but perhaps at some point, I made a comment that someone finds rude without my knowledge. So yeah, maybe I've been but trying not to.
@alwayzzcitra (1861)
• Indonesia
28 Oct 09
Oh, no I do not do that. I wouldn't insult people who have different thought with me. If they have different perspective with me, so what. Being rude to them would only make them rude to me. It will only create problems. I am here for fun and friends, not for fight and enemies. And so far, there are no members who are being rude to me and I am glad because of that :)
@rhan04 (307)
• Philippines
28 Oct 09
Hey laydee!
I've never been rude here in mylot or in any forums/discussions I've been with. If I somehow disagree with what someone said, I would just leave it as that. Anyway, everybody has their own opinions and they have the freedom to express themselves. However, if it happens that they are the one who is rude to me, I tend to just ignore them or say something to defend myself but in a nicer way.