End the Hate

[KHAN-E]

When I first came to Literotic in 2002 I chose to post in the Playground because it was the most welcoming board on Lit. The General Board was often full of rants and raves and bitterness. The Playground wasn't. It was filled with friendly, open-minded people.

It seems that things have changed. There is much posted about Freedom of Speech. People claim they will post whatever they want, where ever they want, and that nobody is going to tell them how to post.

What those posters fail to understand is that with Freedom comes Responsibility. We are responsible for what the Playground is and for what it is becoming.

In the past week numerous persons have left Lit. due to the hatred and bitterness displayed on this board. It is up to those of us remaining to change our actions, to make the Playground a friendly, welcoming place to post and play.

I ask that people exercise restraint in their posting. Post as you would want others to post to and about you. As much as possible, follow the requests of a thread's founder. If you don't like the subject matter of a thread, don't post there.

If we continue to devour one another, there will be no Playground. At best what is left will not be a pleasant place.

I urge each of us to do our part to end the hatred and bitterness that have become cancers in the Playground.

 

[Dhalgren150]

When I first came to Literotic in 2002 I chose to post in the Playground because it was the most welcoming board on Lit. The General Board was often full of rants and raves and bitterness. The Playground wasn't. It was filled with friendly, open-minded people.

It seems that things have changed. There is much posted about Freedom of Speech. People claim they will post whatever they want, where ever they want, and that nobody is going to tell them how to post.

What those posters fail to understand is that with Freedom comes Responsibility. We are responsible for what the Playground is and for what it is becoming.

In the past week numerous persons have left Lit. due to the hatred and bitterness displayed on this board. It is up to those of us remaining to change our actions, to make the Playground a friendly, welcoming place to post and play.

I ask that people exercise restraint in their posting. Post as you would want others to post to and about you. As much as possible, follow the requests of a thread's founder. If you don't like the subject matter of a thread, don't post there.

If we continue to devour one another, there will be no Playground. At best what is left will not be a pleasant place.

I urge each of us to do our part to end the hatred and bitterness that have become cancers in the Playground.

I agree.

And say,I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Simple many never learn simple it is to hard.