Tact Options

[fameONE]

Definition: Tact means that you can deal with people in a manner that will maintain good relations and avoid problems. It means that you are polite, calm, and firm.

Lets examine this a bit further, shall we?

An online community is definitely the place to hide behind a screenname or persona and get away with using as little tact as possible. But the importance of such a trait shouldn't be overlooked.

Life can be made a hell of a lot easier if one can properly communicate with another. Every individual reading this, particularly the mods (being they're in a leadership position) should understand how exactly to deal with people in such a manner. Why? Well, it would put a lot of these bullshit, petty and immature CB problems to the side.

Just a thought. This will, more than likely, go over many of your heads and it'll rot away in The Lounge with about 5 responses because most users on CB won't know how to respond to this, but thats ok, because as long as its read then thats all that matters.

[NoSex]

Simple but valuable. A great piece of advice.

We can be tactful, but in no way will this guarntee an absence of offense. Neat and clean communication takes two willing, capable, and cooperative parties. When these parties share differences, sometimes it's hard to find tact on both sides. Not to mention, even just telling someone they're wrong, no matter how polite, will always offend certain people. But, tact can be meaningful and organized where name calling and insults never will be. The use of proper communication has a greater potential for social advancement, understanding, and an actual free and open dialouge. We don't get anywhere riding ad hominem along all the time.

Learn to talk to people and you might get heard a hell of a lot more.