I never said they were horrid. I said they were “personal attacks,” you little sissy.
Well, I wasn’t lying. I conclude that you’re a puss.
And you won’t find any warnings or admonishments, because unlike you, I don’t run to the moderators crying that my feelings are hurt. I take it up with the person directly. I’ve never once complained about another poster to a moderator; a whimpering little fuckwit like yourself wouldn’t come close to making me end that trend.
Frankly, I wouldn’t be wildly happy with any of these in Great Debates. Any of them might result in at least a general admonition to please tone it down and debate the issues, not attack each other personally, etc. Most of them after number one could get you warned for a direct personal insult.
You said “personal insults”. Much of the other you cite is advice. Advice it would do you well to follow. Or not. The only personal insult from THAT thread was “genius”. Now although it was delivered with sarcasm, the only way “genius” would be a “personal insult” would be if the person on the receiving end took great pride in being a complete fucking moron. In which case I might owe you an apology. (Even though it’s only the one.) Be sure to let me know. Okay, moron?
And if you had heeded my sage advice and paid attention, you would have been able to see that I attempted to take it up with the person directly. He was ignoring the specific question, so I went to the Administrators. Kinda logical, actually. When you think another poster has flouted the rules you can usually count on a Mod to see it. But if a you think a Mod has flouted the rules and does not address it when you bring it up, going up the ladder is the logical thiing to do. Hope that helps, (genius or moron—you pick).
That’s pretty much what I thought. Thank you. Now to impose slightly further: the point of all this was this post:
It seems to me that this is very much like many of the examples I provided, especially #s 6, 7, 9, and 11. So would you agree that it too d be (and is) in violation to the rules of GD? If you disagree, can you please be specific as to why not. Thank you.
Why, so you can “artfully craft insults” and see just how close you can skate to the line and still get away with it? See, despite your claims that this thread belongs in Great Debates and is intended to be a serious and sober discussion, you kind of poisoned the well from the get-go.
The difference is what came before. You expressed concern that you would be banned for disagreeing with a moderator, and tomndeb was saying that wouldn’t happen – wouldn’t even happen if the situation was much worse, that is, if you’d been distorting or etc. Could tomndeb have worded it more politely? Sure. But he didn’t, and his comment are still on the OK side of the line.
How about allusions to the sanity of a poster? Is it permissable to call someone crazy, suggest they start/stop taking medication or that they belong in a mental institution? I recall one thread that resulted in an email exchange with a moderator that concluded these were permissable.
Huh? All of a sudden you feel qualified to answer? Not that I don’t appreciate you taking the time to parse this, I do. But earlier you kind of bowed out saying that you felt you didn’t have a good enough command of the GD rules and was going to wait for Tuba Diva. That said, I do not agree with your assessment. It was a personal insult. Period. Could he have worded it more politely? That depends on what he was trying to say. Given his command of the language I’m sure he could have crafted the insult to be more weasely, but he didn’t. We have his words. They are an attack on the poster, not the post.
Ohh Boo hoo for you!
I like it when moderators whack idiots up the side of the head. It makes the board more pleasant for the rest of us without over usage of the ban-stick.
What is your fucking problem? Pay attention, genius.
Do you mean something like that? You said all that before tomndebb even entered the thread, IIRC. Now you are fucking whining because you believed someone attacked you and not your post? Pathetic. You are a sad little puss of a man.
You niggling little niggler, you. Yes I made a mistake typing “insults” instead of “attacks”. Guilty as charged. My apologies, as I did put the word in quotes. Now, if you think that changes the content of my post, whew! You’re dumberer than I thought.
Advice: Pay attenion.
Strong advice: C’mon, pay fucking attention.
Strong advice with personal attack (that one you seem to so despise): C’mon, pay fucking attention, genius.
Wow. Evidently, this can’t be said enough: Pay fucking attention. I called a Moderator on breaking the rules. He would not respond, therefore I sent it up the line. If he would have addressed it, we might not be here.
Now if you’re reading this, just dart your eyes back up to the previous paragraph and read it again. Get it now?
On preview:
What? That’s it?!! You get all tough in the other thread and bandy about a threat of taking me to the pit ( :rolleyes: ), then you come in here salivating, like youse gonna kicks yourself some butt, and this is what you bring? Well, good. (Yawn) The fewer letters I have to type for your consumption sans comprehension the better.
See? This is why nobody likes you. You pick some tiny, insignificant little issue that has nothing to do with anything, and you throw a hissy fit over it. You’re like a puppy chewing up shoes. No matter how many times somebody smacks you on the nose with a newspaper, you keep sneaking back to the shoe. I have no doubt you’ll drone on in “poor little me” mode for 4 or 5 pages.
Let me break it down for ya:
tomndebb = good moderator, widely respected by many dopers.
magellan01 = whiny little fuckwit, generally laughed at by many dopers.
In other breaking news, the Sun is expected to rise in the east again tommorrow.