In BBQ, why mod a hint at a racist joke but not an actual racial slur?

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@mordecaiB

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The title of the rule is ‘Socks’, but the actual rule just says ‘Do not use more than one screen name.’ It doesn’t say, ‘Don’t create a second account to fool people.’ But people remember this as the sock rule, but that’s its spirit. Which is my whole point. We all know what the rule is meant for. And that’s how it’s enforced. Were it a ‘bright line’ rule, it would be enforced as written. And it’s not.

But this is what I mean by rules lawyering. Everyone knows exactly what that rule means, it’s just that there is always a miniscule group of posters who want to find a workaround so they don’t have to follow the rules. The other 99.9% have no problem parsing that rule.

It’s not clear to me at this point if you think you’re disagreeing or not. I wasn’t talking about “rules lawyering” at all. I was talking about the meaning of “bright line” rules.