If I said you had a beautiful body..
Would you hold it against me?Any native (and good non-native) English speakers will know that sentence can be read in two different ways, with different meanings.
Words are powerful, but that power can be both productive or destructive depending on the meaning of the author, or more importantly, how they are read by the reader.
This is especially true on a medium such as CS where the written word is the main means of communication.
Posts are sometimes misconstrued for a number of reasons. It could be simply misread; defensiveness; ego; current mood; agenda, etc., or any combination of the above.
Sometimes it is a good thing that the post is misinterpreted. I read one post last week and I went 'Whoooo,.. that is a dig! '
But the person to whom it was directed, read it completely differently and not as a negative against them .
But often, it is simply an innocent statement taken up incorrectly, and maybe not even related to the person who misinterprets it, and suddenly world war three ensues.
CS is a microcosm of the real world.
It is just as well nobody here has access to weapons of mass destruction
