What is the proper way to argue here on Yahoo!Answers, in your own opinion? Was I out of line?
I answered a question on a rather controversial subject (at least to me) to the best of my ability. The question I answered was riddled with misinformation and horrendous grammatical errors. While I admit that my response was harsh and most likely rude, it was honest and factual and it was my opinion. It seems I hit a tender nerve in my quest to instill the art of intelligent opinion onto this person.
The asker attacked me personally in her additional comments, looked at my questions and formulated assumptions about my knowledge of the English language, and attempted to flout the credibility of a point I made with an out of date online publication she discovered.
I understand that this is an open forum and my feelings aren’t hurt by any means. I know no one on Yahoo!Answers but myself. I am just curious about how other people would feel in this sort of situation.
Are honesty and fact the most important things in an argument, or the tone of your argumentative words?
It would be easier to say if you left a link to the question.
Sometimes it’s not what you say but how you say it. There are a lot of overly sensitive people out here in cyber world.
To me fact is most important in a question/answer forum, however when I ask a question I usually don’t appreciate when someone answers: “it’s ______ you idiot, etc.”.
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Well I found the question. What you were dealing with is a religious nut, you can’t reason with the unreasonable. She had her opinion, and that’s it. You had a different opinion, therefore in her mind you suck.
I would take some pleasure in having touched a nerve with her. At least she did read your answer instead of just giving you a thumb down after reading the first sentence.
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