[HPFGU-Feedback] Re: ADMIN: Possible Change to the Main List Settings

[Amanda Geist]

Talisman:

> We are all allowed our opinion, but the ground rules printed on the
> face of this site provide that:
>
> "Personal attacks or insulting comments about individuals or groups
> will *not* be tolerated. Messages of this sort will be deleted and
> may result in moderation."
>
> Of course, if no one enforces the rule it is meaningless.

Just. My. Personal. Opinion. Not anything official. My take as a longtime
reader of the list who has seen *genuine* attacks on and off list.

She didn't say "All lawyers are ambulance-chasing squid," she said "there's
a lot of lawyers and some are out looking for a fight." I personally didn't
really take that an attack. Or insulting. It wasn't a categorical
classification or statement about an entire group, it wasn't pointed--and
honestly, I don't think it's untrue, either. Some of them *are,* even if
most of them aren't.

I know lots of lawyers, have worked for and with them, and they are people
just like everybody else. Some of them have great senses of humor, some are
as dry as toast, some of them are ethical, some aren't. I thought the
statement that was made was an expanded version of "some of them aren't."

I can understand how a lawyer might be sensitive to this issue, but I really
don't think lawyers as a group have been attacked here.

If you really feel offended by this, it'd be my suggestion to contact
whoever posted it (I've already deleted that post, sorry) and try to get
them to clarify their meaning; perhaps if they restate what they were trying
to say it might lessen the perception you have?

~Amanda, stunned at the amount of email you have pending when you're too
busy at work to download your home inbox for, oh, about six days