Comment by lsc
14 years ago
I'd be interested to know how you got horribly burned by /reporting/ something to the BBB.
(as a side note, is it the 'scam' word that you find incendiary? or the cussing? If it's the cussing, how old are you? To me, calling someone a scam is dramatic, while cursing doesn't really register.)
The story is one which I do not feel is appropriate to post publicly at this point. If you really feel like hearing it, email me at myHNusername@gmail.com and I _might_ oblige.
It is both the cussing and the use of the word scam. While I don't generally cuss myself, I have no problem with people speaking or writing like that, but I feel that it does frame the post as "I'm angry and have an anti-BBB agenda" rather than "I am a blogger trying to investigate a potential issue."
ah. If you don't feel comfortable talking about it, that's fine.
I dono I find the subject of the cultural acceptability of cussing to be kind of interesting. I'm considering adding appropriate asterisks to my own writing, more as a humerus affectation than anything else, as I personally can't imagine how the asterisks would make it less offensive, but eh, it's interesting to hear what people think about the subject. I sometimes wonder if I'm being way more offensive than I intend.