<p>Hi geek_mom! Great to see you around too, …</p>
<p>Your points are well taken, and I’m sure I could just as well substitute “ask” for “tell” to achieve a more diplomatic phrasing, since in reality, telling rocketDA to post something in the form of request as opposed to demand is just asking.</p>
<p>My approach to posting might just be a little different - I’m quite free in posting things like “the majority of students at my school are mediocre at best as compared to so and so schools,” etc. However, I favor clarity and sufficient description, because usually the sense of offense goes away if the writer demonstrates having given thought to the proposal and covered the different angles it may be viewed at, even if the wording used is extreme. My own post was in response to:</p>
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<p>I think there was something done wrong, independent of courtesy, in the form of an incorrect evaluation, which led to the incorrect attitude. This is purely on the level of how the question being asked should be expected to be answered (for the sake of argument, even if it were OK to demand, rather than request, answers).</p>