First:
A lot of people, including myself, find the word “cunt” incredibly offensive. Its use is not allowed in the Pit as an insult against another Doper. Your usage here isn’t against the rules per se, but given that we’re not in the Pit, it’s completely inappropriate. Please make an effort to keep your audience in mind with your word choices.
twickster , Cafe Society moderator
Followed by:
I asked you on page 1 not to use this word in this thread. You have ignored my instructions, and I have issued a warning for ignoring my instructions.
twickster , Cafe Society moderator
When called on it:
There is a rule that posters should obey moderator instructions. That is the rule he broke, and that is the infraction I issued the warning for.
twickster , Cafe Society moderator
Finally justified with:
twickster:
The word is offensive, and was reported to the Cafe Society moderators as such both times that devilsknew used it in the thread. Although it isn’t specifically against the rules, it was bothering people – not just me, since I wasn’t reading the thread, and wouldn’t have seen the posts if they weren’t reported.
It’s not exactly a secret this is a hot-button word, and its use inside the Pit has been discussed till we’re all totally freaking sick of the discussion. I consider its use outside the Pit unnecessarily provocative and offensive.
I thus asked him not to use that word. Although I phrased the request politely, it came from a moderator, posting as a moderator, so the request needed to be taken seriously. He ignored my request, so I gave him the warning for ignoring my instructions. I stated that those were the grounds when I gave him the warning.
Sorry, I’m not seeing a reason to change my mind on this one.
PS: See the “Survivor” thread for an explanation of what I did there and why – it actually isn’t at all relevant to this issue.
If you think that’s proper moderation, twickster , you need to either resign or be fired.
There are proper and improper methods of adding or modifying the rules. Making up and enforcing new rules on the fly is one of the improper ones. Did you just not feel like going through the regular channels today?