I think that’s silly and selfish. When someone is acting like a jerk, it’s hurting everyone, not just you: it degrades the social value of the boards. And unless you maxed out ranks in diplomacy, and you didn’t, and obviously neither did I, you’re going to be completely ineffective at getting the person to stop being a jerk. The mods, however, CAN be effective at getting the person to stop.
So if you report them, you’re taking effective action to improve the board’s social value. If you don’t do so because doing so threatens your masculinity, well, that’s silly and selfish. Grow a pair!
What I see above me as complete silliness is the suggestion that someone should feel hurt and insulted because they were called an “apologist.” That’s goddamn silly. Even more silly than that is the idea that some other adult should call in a third or fourth adult to admonish the first for calling someone an “apologist.” It moves into rank absurdity when a fifth adult cries ongoing, perpetual, everlasting foul if there ends up being no admonition, or insufficient admonition, or admonition that is just not exacting enough, of the user of the insult “apologist.”
If all of this back and forth boo-hooing about who got in trouble and who didn’t is mature and desireable, I’m in the wrong fucking classroom.
Ignoring the use of the insulting word “apologist” in the first fucking place would have saved all of the ensuing silliness. Except of course for the one crying ongoing, perpetual, everlasting foul. That pussy is going to do that forever, no matter what.
Actually, if they really are being a jerk, people will move away from them. Just fucking ignore them. If you can’t do that, there are little software devices that help. As I’ve said before, there’s a great deal more offensive that is allowed to go on here than mere insults. “One may smile and smile and be a villain.”
When I form a stereotype of the grouchy ill-informed conservative, yelling at his TV and putting forth arguments that are all gut and devoid of substantiation – well, I think of Der.
He’s sort of amusing, isn’t he?
Substantively, I’d say that direct insults should be banned from GD – they are. But I’d keep the backhanded stuff: calling somebody an apologist is substantive and not wholly ad hominen. Whether it’s good form is another matter – frankly I think that depends upon circumstance.
Heck, I haven’t seen any evidence in this thread that xtisme is or is not an Iraqi War apologist. Hypothetically, one could think that the war is misguided and still oppose anti-war arguments on their technical merits. The intellectual fortitude of someone like that might be questioned though.
Eeeks! Repeatedly? Well, nobody said anything about repeatedly! If that’s the case, then the world will only be put right by a good and sufficient admonishment! How can this small society persist in the face of repeatedly calling someone an apologist, let alone an Iraq war apologist?
And if I were called a baby snuff film producer, how could I ever live the shame down? Oh, to know that people out there saw someone else call me a baby snuff film producer? Where’s that Shodancorp Faux Victorian Fainting Couch? Swoon!
A stupid git? Owwww! Oh, how shall we ever survive as a board when a ruffian can toss about such insults as stupid git? If only I could get someone to admonish Contrapuntal so that I could start the healing process. But the world is so unfair and conservatives can always get away with calling other people stupid gits.
There you go. I’m not a conservative. But facts have little to do with your rants, do they? You’re too busy psychobabbling to pay attention to anything but the braying of your own ass.