# I fear we'll need a rule clarification for insulting people using \[del\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-well-need-a-rule-clarification-for-insulting-people-using-del/310246>\
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**Created:** [June 28, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-well-need-a-rule-clarification-for-insulting-people-using-del/310246 "2005-06-28T19:11:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![minty\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@minty\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minty_green)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-well-need-a-rule-clarification-for-insulting-people-using-del/310246/21 "2005-07-19T03:42:35Z")

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> [@C K Dexter Haven](#):
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> We do not want, and have never wanted, to have a flurry of rules as if we were a legal system. We don’t have the time to write them up, and we’d just have [del]smart-ass[/del] bright lawyer-types trying to find loopholes to justify evasion.

I demand that the gratuitous slur on “lawyer-types” be stricken from the record.

[sub]“Stricken”? Get it? Anybody?[/sub]

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**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-well-need-a-rule-clarification-for-insulting-people-using-del/310246/22 "2005-07-19T04:41:28Z")

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> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> This might sound like a really wacky idea, but how about we treat one another with consideration and respect?
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> It’s possible to disagree with someone without resorting to throwing things at them, calling them names, etc.

I’ve heard some wacky things here, but really…consideration and respect?

C’mon now.  
😛

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**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-well-need-a-rule-clarification-for-insulting-people-using-del/310246/23 "2005-07-19T13:17:31Z")

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> [@Genghis Bob](#):
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> Man, my last post [del]sucked[/del] [del]was not as successful as I had hoped it would be [/del] sucked.
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> I’m putting myself on ignore.

Don’t you know that you’re not supposed to discuss that?

[sub]Though I wonder what would happen if you did.

Just tried. You can’t.[/sub]

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-fear-well-need-a-rule-clarification-for-insulting-people-using-del/310246/24 "2005-07-20T23:57:31Z")

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> [@JeffB](#):
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> Don’t you know that you’re not supposed to discuss that?
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> [sub]Though I wonder what would happen if you did.
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> Just tried. You can’t.[/sub]

Imagine if you could and then, just now, when you tried to preview your post you couldn’t because you had yourself on ignore. Or maybe as you typed your post, the words just never appeared in the typie box.

And then every time you spoke, you’d not know what the hell you just said because you were ignoring yourself.

O.K., don’t imagine it.

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