I took samclean’s remark as levity, I certainly didn’t detect it being aimed at anyone in particular; especially to you,drewtoo99. As to your OP, FWIW, I’m sure you’re not interested in insulting anyone personally either in the PIT, it seems you’re just curious as to what is allowed there.
samclean, I expect a check in the mail.
No; you would have to say:
The world would be a better place with fewer people like you in it.
I wish that people like you had never been born.
If there was a published list of which words are not allowed in which forum, and which subjects were not allowed in each forum, then what would the Mods have to do?
Delete spam?
Hey drewtoo99 just read your OP in the PIT. Okay, maybe you were learning how to insult properly after all. 
Not bad at all, btw, it made me laugh aloud after reading this thread first.
Well, it’s not like people actually adhere to rules all the time, so they’d still be the enforcers, but at least they wouldn’t be making things up all the time like ‘you can’t say ‘nag’ in ATMB’. I have no problem with ‘Don’t be a jerk’ which gives the mods some discretion which gets applied rarely and randomly. But ‘hey hey hey, you can’t say that in this forum even though you had no way to know that you couldn’t do that’ isn’t fair especially when a person asks and is specifically told (by Ed, in this thread) ‘nope, not telling you’.
I mean, should DrewTwo try one of those lines so it’s not a hypothetical and we can get a ruling? Honestly, it shouldn’t be a hard question, we don’t need a new rule to be made up for it, Ed (or a mod) could simply tell DrewTwo if it’s over the line and that would (should) be that.
It’s like asking a cop if it’s okay to smoke within 25 feet of the fire exit. The cop might say ‘nope, against state law to smoke within 25 feet of an exit’ or ‘go ahead, since that’s ONLY a fire exit and not used for anything else, that’s fine’, the cop isn’t going to say ‘I’m not telling you, go ahead and try it and I’ll give you a ticket if you can’t do it’.
If those lines aren’t allowed, there’s no reason for the mods to not just step up, say they can’t be used and cite a rule. If they can be used, than say it. If they don’t want them to be used, but they’re allowed to be used, tough. That’s what happens in a rule oriented message board.
What happens if you tell a cop to fuck a cactus? What if he’s got a pointed stick?
Obviously the mods are going to have their friends, and it will not take a savant to look at inconsistencies in enforcement. Taking things on a “case to case basis” is Newspeak for using their position as mods to enforce the rules selectively based on who is more favored.
What you are allowed to say in the pit has more to do with that than an arbitrary list of acceptable insults. And I would assume most of us here are aware of that.
Shutup!!
Not really. Speaking only for myself, I’ve modded people on here before who I consider friends.
It doesn’t have any bearing on anything if someone is breaking the rules.
Hold your friends close, your enemies closer, and cactii closest of all.
Regards,
Shodan
Oh. Seems arbitrary, but I don’t really feel the need to tell anyone to fuck either themselves or a cactus, so it was just idle curiosity.
I’ve been here almost 8 years and I’ve never seen mods play favorites to members when it comes to doing what they do. You break a rule, you get attention.
In the 6 weeks you’ve been here you’ve seen otherwise? I’d love for you to link to a few of those instances where mods have been selective or inconsistent.
I’ll second that. I haven’t seen mods play favorites here either.
Some people complain about the rules here a lot. But it plays both ways. The rules keep both sides in check. Both the mods and the posters have to play by the same rules.
Both Mark Twain and Clarence Darrow are sometimes credited with saying, “I have never wished anyone dead, but I have read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.”
Neither originated it, but a “Judge Hoar” did in or about 1885, saying that he didn’t attend their funeral but he approved of it.
Because it’s okay to insult a cactus in the Pit.
How do you insult a cactus without sounding like a fourth-grader?
“The only point you’ve ever made is on top of your head!”
“You’re spiky on the outside and soft on the inside, just like… well, you know!”
So in effect we’re saying “Go fuck a cactus - which, by the way, is an insult to the cactus”. Sounds good.
Release the tiger? Wait – that’s a raspberries.