# Is referring to posters as "Dopes" an insult?

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**Created:** [January 3, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-referring-to-posters-as-dopes-an-insult/957105 "2022-01-03T00:17:44Z")\
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Here’s a link to a thread I found with (what I believe is) ECG’s most recent guidance on Giraffe linkage:

> [@What, exactly, is the Giraffe board rule?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-the-giraffe-board-rule/946335):
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> For those that don’t know, Giraffe is mostly comprised of current Dopers, ex-Dopers and banned Dopers. They even have current and ex- mods that post there. We know that giraffe people can post pretty much anything about Giraffe, even outright lies. Even lies that mods know are lies. You can even post a link to Giraffe telling people they can go there to discuss the latest on the Dope, like Ed’s thread about restarting the Cecil column. That’s all okay. But if a Giraffe poster tells a lie here,…

This is as close as I could find to any actual rules regarding the Giraffe Board.

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