Originally posted by: Swar_Raj
I see Qazi and Mr Ad saying same remark..that someone used bad words against the nation. No one will tolerate that and we will alls tand to taht..but i have still not seen that and Mods have also asked about ti. If u were there then huw coem it was not getting reported?????
Pl report such postings...I do too and i am sure Mods willt ake appropriate steps.
time for a lil bit of sensitivity training:
lets assume someone says to you: you are voice of ReligionA, not voice of everyone; or you are voice of THAT RegionA, not voice of India. There are certain things that are happening here on a subtle level:
there is a connotation that your ReligionA or RegionA is bad. I do not know if someone has actually used religion, but talk which implicitly denigrades a region is also worse than any personal abuse. Look at all the things which qualify as "hate" crimes, and you'll find that region, ethnicity and nationality rank high. These are considered worse than personal abuse because they offend so many. And talk of someone being affiliated with some terrorist org, that is slander of the worst kind, worse than any personal abuse.
actually, some of the posts in reference are not even as polished as that. they are worse- aside from poor grammar and poor logic, they offend the sensibilities more directly.
tell me, if someone goes through the bother of digging out these posts, what specific action would be taken? the same as what was done when i first started reporting them?
you want personal abuse? how does "rishte mei tumhare baap lagte hain" sound to you. fine? can it then use it for u? happened right under the nose of moderators who kept giving "sheh" to certain people in the name of "winning back the peace". i disregard such things as juvenile and dont even bother reporting them- i can handle personal insults hurled at me, but find it harder to deal with attacks, subtle or otherwise, which attack my nationality or ethnicity.
the fact that you see certain people in sgmp or the lady in the audience mouthing some of these things do not make it OK. they just need a lot of training. in most other countries, they would have been shown the door. Kicked out unceremoniously. Fired. Sued.
there was a big hue-and-cry when the Harvard President, Dr Lawrence Summers quoted something from research which was failrly innocuous and actually true. That got construed as a put-down against females in general and has led to his problems.
let's start here before we go further with the issue of tactfully dealing with problematical customers even in a monopolistic setting (the setting of IF), of showing to investors that someone is mature enough to manage what is essentially a service business (the IT components of this site are very easy to replicate).
sorry, but i think it's high time we put these issues behind us but we are not doing so when we are intent on throwing things at some folks. to keep on at it one way and not expect the other side to speak up, that would be unfair.