This totally reminds me of something I saw happen on longhair. Someone posted asking if anyone knew if marijuana use would slow the rate of hair growth (which I think is quite on topic for the comm). But one member left a very snarky sarcastic comment which was like "ohnoes, I love smoking pot but will it liek stop my hair growing??!!eleventy-one". Someone confronted her about it and she said that she didn't want the glorification of drug use on her friends page.
I pointed out that 1. You can't control what is on your friends page because they are other people who are writing in a public forum. 2. The post was on topic and didn't contain any glorification of drug use (Which was true!) and 3. the OP didn't ask for her judgement on her decision to smoke pot, and it's rude to provide an opinion or judgment which isn't asked for in any way.
She didn't reply to my post, so I'm guessing that she saw that she was mistaken in some way. And the (good) mod of that community didn't disagree with me either (though she might have just not seen the post).
I think I take a lot of my lj-etiquette from the rules at vaginapagina. I think that community runs very nicely. Also they have very good mods and clear rules.
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I pointed out that
1. You can't control what is on your friends page because they are other people who are writing in a public forum.
2. The post was on topic and didn't contain any glorification of drug use (Which was true!)
and 3. the OP didn't ask for her judgement on her decision to smoke pot, and it's rude to provide an opinion or judgment which isn't asked for in any way.
She didn't reply to my post, so I'm guessing that she saw that she was mistaken in some way. And the (good) mod of that community didn't disagree with me either (though she might have just not seen the post).
I think I take a lot of my lj-etiquette from the rules at