# Are posters now forbidden to imply rule violations in the Pit? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 4, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-posters-now-forbidden-to-imply-rule-violations-in-the-pit/697504 "2014-09-04T18:05:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 57
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-posters-now-forbidden-to-imply-rule-violations-in-the-pit/697504/57 "2014-09-08T04:09:41Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Changing a username in a way intended to insult a poster … > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > … didn’t happen. As far as I can tell, it did. Let’s look at the post in question: > [@Opining that Jesus or God are fictional characters is trolling, by definition?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opining-that-jesus-or-god-are-fictional-characters-is-trolling-by-definition/697227/101): > > Let’s face it, _Sarcasm_, you have a long history of this sort of thing. First of all, if you didn’t mean for it to poke/needle someone, then why use the different spelling at all? That’s not how his name is spelled. Even if your next point is “it’s how it’s pronounced”, you still clearly meant to draw attention to it because you put it in italics. There would be no reason to put it in italics unless you wanted it to be noticed. It’s pretty much just like [THIS case not too long ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=721092) was, where it was decided you can’t call Half Man Half Wit “half wit”, even though that’s his name. Name or not, using it in a way that can be a shot at someone falls under insults easily. Claiming you didn’t mean it as a little dig on him is pretty ridiculous. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-posters-now-forbidden-to-imply-rule-violations-in-the-pit/697504)._