Yeah, the people on the UK-Yankee forum can be appallingly twee sometimes, and seem to be obsessed with what seem like uninteresting stuff to me, but at least they seem generally friendly to newcomers.
Well, you know, strike that. I disagreed with a regular poster there, citing the research I had done for my opinion, and was replied to quite rudely by several people, without anyone ever disputing the basis of the argument I had made.
I *don't* really know what to say to someone like the OP in the thread I linked to, as she seems to me to be living entirely in a fantasyland. Bit I'm glad that some people, including Mari, are being gentle and (as best as possible) helpful, instead of just snarky.
Yeah, UKY is a totally different vibe in general. I feel much more comfortable posting Random Visa Questions there than in b_a . . .and I'm a mod!!!
I try to be as nice as I can in those posts while trying to Keep It Real, because plain and simple, that was me 10 years ago and I wish there had been resources like these online communities when I was that age. Sometimes I do it better than other times, but I did feel sorry for her and I did end up deleting some nasty comments; I don't know if you saw them or not. I was thinking "oh, honey, you've thrown yourself to the wolves". :/
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Date: 2007-05-02 01:30 pm (UTC)Well, you know, strike that. I disagreed with a regular poster there, citing the research I had done for my opinion, and was replied to quite rudely by several people, without anyone ever disputing the basis of the argument I had made.
I *don't* really know what to say to someone like the OP in the thread I linked to, as she seems to me to be living entirely in a fantasyland. Bit I'm glad that some people, including Mari, are being gentle and (as best as possible) helpful, instead of just snarky.
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Date: 2007-05-02 11:14 pm (UTC)I try to be as nice as I can in those posts while trying to Keep It Real, because plain and simple, that was me 10 years ago and I wish there had been resources like these online communities when I was that age. Sometimes I do it better than other times, but I did feel sorry for her and I did end up deleting some nasty comments; I don't know if you saw them or not. I was thinking "oh, honey, you've thrown yourself to the wolves". :/