Fluther grudges: Do you hold them?

Admit it. You know you’ve been through an argument on Fluther (or anywhere on the internet) with another person. You know that the discussion at one point got so heated that you felt like shouting through the screen.

But the important question is: When you’ve had your bit of quiet time after all’s said and done, do you try to make up? Fluther is an interesting place because of the relatively small collective size. The same people you argued with will invariably pop up in another question. And the thing which struck me is that that person who you’ve felt such animosity towards will spew angry comments in one question, yet offer the best and most supportive advice to another person in another question.

You’re faced with the fact that at the heart of it, we’re all people. We all have our differences and we all have our points we disagree on, but we all have that same capacity to provide great answers (and do live up to that capacity). Therefore, do you then put in the effort to apologise? Do you, in another question, talk normally with that other person? Do you even continue the argument in one form or another? Or do you just pointedly ignore them?

I will do my best to make up, even if I got into a horrible discussion (and I’ve had my share of them) because we’re all people, and none of us are perfect, and none of us are always wrong.

Do you?

On a side-note, this is why I’m against implementing an ignore feature on Fluther. In real life you can’t do that, and real life forces you to realise that people aren’t just one opinion. They’re so much more.