# Is there any recourse for dubious modding? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 4, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-recourse-for-dubious-modding/531248 "2010-03-04T05:46:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 62
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-recourse-for-dubious-modding/531248/62 "2010-03-08T02:20:35Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > Piffle. > > Noting that a comment appears to be racist or even noting that a post appeared to be infantile falls within the realm of attacking the post, not the poster. Yes, I entirely agree. That’s my point! > [@tomndebb](#): > > Go back and read the post to which I responded. You did not merely make a comment and then explain it, you went on, at length, across multiple paragraphs, repeatedly making derogatory comments throughout your post. I think you haven’t taken sufficient account of the full context. For example, what’s up with your concentrating on length in this context? I couldn’t get _you_ to go back and re-read it, could I? > [@Why does evolutionary psychology get such a bum rap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-evolutionary-psychology-get-such-a-bum-rap/524521/104): > > … I genuinely apologize for personalizing my remarks in reply to your posts in this thread… > > I will not make the rule-violating mistake of criticizing you personally here again. What you will see here is not criticism of you, but of your views… > > … The view of science and what science _is_ and what scientists _do_ you keep espousing is, in a word, **infantile**. **You** , on the other hand, are not infantile. He had bashed me in three posts and treated me very smarmily and condescendingly. In my anger, I failed in my responsibilities by attacking him personally, which definitely crossed the line. But in the follow-up post in question, I changed my ways. I offered a sincere apology for my personal insults. I told him I was going to criticize his views rather than him as a person. I went out of my way to tell him that while I found his views to be infantile, I did not find **him** to be infantile. I put it to you that that your assertion that I crossed the line is unjust. The rule about crossing the line by attacking the person in the guise of attacking the view is not violated when the poster goes out of his way to apologize for the previous approach and **explicitly state** that the _poster_ does not merit the criticism I feel his _views_ deserve. I am not concerned about this particular incident. I _am_ concerned that you appear to be redefining the rules for the future. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-recourse-for-dubious-modding/531248)._