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In Reply to: Re: Wrong question. Humm! posted by Curious on August 02, 2002 at 12:34:12:
If you want him to feel welcome here, don't start by making him answer to accusations.
You are either genuinely misunderstanding me or you are twisting my words.
My post stated clearly: Barney should not be made answer to accusations. He may answer queries if he so chooses.
I said not to frame questions in accusations. I think it is terrible to start from a point of view someone is wrong first and ask them questions in a way so they are supposed to talk their way out of trouble. So none of the "did you stop beating your wife yet, answer yes or no" type questions, please - we don't any more of these. It's pretty awful to have someone throw up a post somewhere on the internet, on a site you may not even visit, that accuses you of wrong-doing. If they are just sincere well worded questions, that's totally fine.
The reason I said it was best to bring this up at NDN is that he feels at home there, he probably reads the site more often, he might feel like Joseph in a "strange and hostile" land, and several posters here have said they had enough of this Barney stuff.
Of course if you feel you have legitimate questions that fall within our scope, you can post them here, and if you want to invite Barney over, please do so.
