Seema, you're never in hot water. You worry too much. *g*
Whew, thanks, Victoria. I worry because I always seem to be on edge these days and constantly saying things that I'm like, "Uh oh..."
So when someone chooses that type of condscending/all-knowing tone in a forum outside their own blog/lj (and even there I find it annoying, but hey, their turf, their rules), I react accordingly, knowing that probably 8 out of 10 times, they've done so consciously and will only backtrack when called.
I hear you. I think in this particular case - when I went back and reread more closely - I saw exactly what you and jenn were talking about. I read too quickly the first time to pick up on the undertones. And it is highly annoying. I think some of the issues behidn that kind of pronouncement have to do with some background credentials that we, as 'general' fen, don't know the speaker has.
In other words, the person speaking thinks that they have an authority to do so that is bestowed upon them by something that is not fandom, hence not recognized by the rest of us and we end up highly annoyed. Does that make sense?
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Whew, thanks, Victoria. I worry because I always seem to be on edge these days and constantly saying things that I'm like, "Uh oh..."
So when someone chooses that type of condscending/all-knowing tone in a forum outside their own blog/lj (and even there I find it annoying, but hey, their turf, their rules), I react accordingly, knowing that probably 8 out of 10 times, they've done so consciously and will only backtrack when called.
I hear you. I think in this particular case - when I went back and reread more closely - I saw exactly what you and jenn were talking about. I read too quickly the first time to pick up on the undertones. And it is highly annoying. I think some of the issues behidn that kind of pronouncement have to do with some background credentials that we, as 'general' fen, don't know the speaker has.
In other words, the person speaking thinks that they have an authority to do so that is bestowed upon them by something that is not fandom, hence not recognized by the rest of us and we end up highly annoyed. Does that make sense?