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Buckwirth
Buckwirth CSN Member Posts: 1,258 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1
Did you reread your post and realize that you did not mean to say that? Did you take offense to the tone in someone else's post?

Tone in the written language is often inadvertent. The perception of the written word is as dependent on the reader as it is on the writer.

If you are the thread starter, you can always go back and edit the original starting post, up to and including deleting the entire thread.

If you have replied, you can edit your post up until the time someone replies to it.

When you see a post where the tone bothers you, you have a few options:

1. Flag it (once flagged it can no longer be edited) and hope that the moderator agrees with you (beware, she might not}

2. Reply (makes the offending post permanent, and possibly starts a chain reaction where several folks get their feelings bruised)

3. Use CSN Email to request the poster make some changes.

As long as no one else has replied to that post they can go back and correct errors of tone, or delete what they wrote completely. Starting with the assumption that your fellow traveler meant no offense (and is, at heart, reasonable) might make help make some of our discourse a bit more civil.
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