The blessing and curse of sites like StackExchange is that everything happens in public. Sometimes someone will post something objectionable and it isn't possible to take the person aside for a private conversation the way it would be if we were all in the same physical place. The strong presumption is that people don't mean to offend and there has been a miscommunication; I am not talking about the flame wars that sometimes break out in other internet communities.
What are the relevant halachot of rebuke and lashon hara? What is the right way to respond to this kind of situation?
I am intentionally posting this on the main site, not meta, because it is a question of halacha that is applicable beyond this site.
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