# asahi's warning **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 4, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asahis-warning/828954 "2019-02-04T17:05:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 123
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asahis-warning/828954/123 "2019-02-06T00:57:42Z")
> [@a moderator](#): > > …In a discussion that involves race why choose to walk the line on inflammatory rhetoric? It strikes me as trying to push the envelope. And given recent history I think this is a fair reading. Push the envelope too far and you can cross the line. > > There’s an argument to be made that this word choice isn’t hate speech, merely anachronistic. Depending on context I could see this argument. I disagree with it, but it can be made. But here, given recent posting history, I see it as trying to push that line. > [@"That's a lie" and the edges of rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-a-lie-and-the-edges-of-rules/824582/33): > > I think the ruling would be that getting too cute irritates the moderation staff… > [@"That's a lie" and the edges of rules](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-a-lie-and-the-edges-of-rules/824582/36): > > …I hope you’ll understand, we occasionally see people who like to see how close to lines they can get. “This is the line? Let’s see if I can step a micron further…”… Quoting from two threads–we’ll see if that works. The point of the quotes is that, clearly, the moderation staff is on the alert for posters who are deliberately trying to “push the line” or “see how close to lines they can get.” I’m not going to claim that moderators are wrong to consider this possibility. Clearly the internet has many corners in which testing the rules (and/or taunting the moderators) is an accepted activity. No one can deny that such people might show up at this message board and try to engage in that activity. But given my own recent case, and this current case involving asahi, I’m wondering if the moderation staff is a little too quick to assume that this is going on. I know that the post I was Warned about was _not_ a case of my trying to Push the Line or Test the Moderators or anything of the kind. I’d suggest further that my posting history, here, does not support a theory that I post with Pushing Lines or Testing Moderators in mind. I just don’t find that to be an interesting activity. I have never engaged in that activity. (If someone sees something in my posting history that indicates otherwise, I’d be grateful if you’d point it out to me.) Furthermore, I would feel very safe in betting that asahi had no such thing in mind, either, with the post discussed in this thread. Or ever, really. Heaven knows I’ve said some uncomplimentary things about asahi, but I definitely don’t see him as a would-be edgelord. Anyway, at the risk of offending moderators: is it possible that you-all are overly quick to conclude about some particular post that ‘this person is trying to test the rules’? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/asahis-warning/828954)._