how to not offend people?

How does that saying go? You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please everyone all of the time? I think that's it. People will always be offended. No matter what you say, how innocent your words are, how humorous and obvious your sarcasm, someone will be offended. I'm honestly amazed my star rating hasn't fallen further than it has. God knows I piss people off at least once a day around here.

I am guilty of the same thing. I don't think there is anything to can do. I know when you and DoubleB are not speaking literally

I haven't posted in a month or two but this is an update- Apple sent us 16 T-shirts for everyone in our group not just the 5 girls stuck in the elevator (I'll post pictures later) - so to the important thing. I've had a lot of attention towards the blog via digg. The elevator (below in last post) story got picked up momentarily on but was buried because it was marked as incorrect because the title was "apple store broke in six days" and people assumed it collapsed or something like that but whatever. Because of its little bit of time on digg and the attention of the glass cube the story got picked up by apple insider, and several other big blogs which all assumed that since it was all girls in the elevator that I was a girl. To tell the truth I'M A GUY, A MAN NOT A WOMAN. But easy mistake. After a couple days with that attention I decided to post my e-mail so if any press could contact me. In less than a day I received an E-mail from someone at iCreate magazine in the UK and I did an interview via e-mail and gave her my address for a copy of the magazine when it got published. So midway through July I received the magazine and it was really cool to have the photos I took and my story publish in a formal magazine I made a copy for the school and made a copy to show people so I could keep my copy at home in a safe pristine condition.

Please keep being yourself! ^_^ I don't know if there is any easy way not to offend people some of the time. I think that just by sharing your viewpoints there is always going to be someone who disagreees with you to the point that some things you say might really bother them. I think that the best thing you can do is just be true to yourself and keep being yourself. I for one think that you have a fun sense of humor and i've never felt offended by your posts. Anyway, I hope that you won't start to feel restricted here at Mylot. I've been having some worries myself about the site and things happening in regards to my account, but I really can't do anything but continue to be myself and hope that people will understand where I'm coming from as much as possible. I really hope that your star rating stays high. You deserve a great rating. You're a valued member of Mylot, in my eyes! ^_^

It's easy, just be quiet if you're annoyed but if you can't help it just comment in a nice positive way and if you accidentally offended a person not on purpose just say you're sorry. Always put yourself in the shoe of others by that you will feel if your comments are offensive or not.

Your answer to your question is right there in your explanation. Sarcasm is only understood by those that know you well and can see your expression when you say these things. People on mylot have no other way to interpret what you mean other than by reading what you type. If you don't want to lose stars, be more politically correct when typing an opinion so as not to offend others. Hope this helps.

Before talking I usually turn on my brain =)). This is the best advice I can give you. You never know who are you talking to. Anyway, I don't like offending people here, and in real life too. So try to understand who can catch your jokes and who feels offended by you. In these last days I'm finding that I can be easily offended by someone. My girlfriends like to joke...and i often get offended by her...

i think you should have to be careful to the word you're saying. Maybe for you isn't a word can offend people. But sometimes we don't know how sensitive some peoples in this site. Choose a better word to say and stay humble..

Well now you have meet a person that may or may not be as sarcatist as you. So you will not like what I'm about to say. And quiet frankly I don't care if you report it or just give me a negitive rating. If you didn't mean something, why bother saying it in the first place? And if I was a black person, I would be offened by that statement whether you were joking or not. Come to think about it, I am offened by it. Oh one more thing.... "i'd never say it to their faces lol" That makes you a coward and in my opinion, scum is to nice of a word to use to descibe a coward. Told you that you would not like what I had to say.

then why would you say that?how can being called the scum of the earth be taked in a good way ?school me...

It's easy. Don't talk about others, especially the bad one. Like the old phrase: "Silent is gold".

A useful frame of mind to use when dealing with people is "the response you get is the meaning of your communication". You never really know if you're offending someone until you get the signals that you ARE offending them. Its hard not to offend, especially in transient relationships such as here. I believe that longtime friends won't take offense very easily though. The other party being offended may mean that your relations aren't that deep enough to begin with.

my belief is, if u have nothing nice to say, dont say anything

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that isnt the slightest bit funny

hey don`t worry be yourself. one or two people not understanding you is not going to affect your star rating that much. besides im sure there must be tons of people who appreciate what u r trying to convey and they will help 2 increase your star rating

Some people are just easily offended. If you are that easily offended, you just don't belong in a public forum. I do think people should use tact when offering advice or an opinion, but I think people need to not take things personally, especially since this is more or less anonymous.

I think respect to people are good way how to treat people. also we need to be more generous to pleased them so that if we possesses this characteristics it may appeal lot of people to join us. personally id like to have more friends.

You can't, unfortunately, avoid offending people. You never know when something that you say is going to offend someone. I guess the best thing I can tell you is just to apologize when you offend people. Since you can't possibly tell how people are going to take what you say, just apologize and move on.

be patient. respect others. here are some tips. if your angry, count to ten. if very angre, count to one hundred before saying things to a person, think of him as infants and elderly sometimes, in a conversation, dont contest other. i mean, even if you're ryt and they are wrong, just let them be ryt. it will den stop the argument. i just got this tips from a book..