> How I should rewrite that text so it will not cause unwanted emotions, but will not look like a dictionary article? That's easy to answer. A "good" post, one

> How I should rewrite that text so it will not cause unwanted emotions, but will not look like a dictionary article? That's easy to answer. A "good" post, one likely to generate light, has many topical references and almost no, or no, first-person ("I") or second-person ("you") pronouns. A less desirable post, one more likely to generate heat instead of light, has fewer topical references and more first-person and second-person pronouns. So when composing a forum post, a post to be read by strangers, it's desirable to either remove or edit all constructions that might be taken to describe a distinction between oneself and others. One could go so far as to write it as an equation: Forum post Q factor = (topical references) / (1+sum of first-person and second-person pronouns) The advantage of the equation is that it could hypothetically be automated and added to a forum post editor, so one's score could be seen to rise and fall as the post is typed. The drawback is that it's a classic case of reductionism -- the possibly misguided idea that everything can be reduced to (for example) mathematics. There's obviously more to quality forum posting than this, but it's at least easy to explain and apply.