# Marley, you're getting worse. Seriously. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 19, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-youre-getting-worse-seriously/586056 "2011-06-19T18:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-youre-getting-worse-seriously/586056/3 "2011-06-19T19:05:59Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > So let me start with a simple question. Since when is it against board rules to politely point out that someone is being emotional? I didn’t say there was a rule against saying someone is being emotional. Taking a cue from your reasonable post - which I appreciated - I said it was time to stop discussing **GIGObuster** ’s supposed emotional state. There had already been enough posts about that: > [@Are environmentalists cowards on immigration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-environmentalists-cowards-on-immigration/585086/250): > > 1. So that explains your personal ideological opposition to any restriction in immigration. I didn’t see you mention that previously. Your illogical opposition make a bit more sense now 🙂 You have heartfelt emotional reasons for it. > [@Are environmentalists cowards on immigration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-environmentalists-cowards-on-immigration/585086/283): > > I’m not talking about “extirpating” existing immigrants from the population (nice emotional rhetoric). > [@Are environmentalists cowards on immigration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-environmentalists-cowards-on-immigration/585086/323): > > You haven’t explained anything. You’ve said you have a non-environmental, but emotional, basis for refusing to allow this to be considered and hence smear anyone who raises it. > [@Are environmentalists cowards on immigration?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-environmentalists-cowards-on-immigration/585086/346): > > But it does seem that your emotions regarding the issue get in the way of you acknowledging some basic facts. Along with **GIGObuster** ’s posts in response each time it was asserted that he was being emotional, and your more recent post (which I quoted in my note). You seem to think I was criticizing you, but I wasn’t. I appreciate that you acknowledged that perhaps your comment was taken in a way that was not intended. I was echoing that and saying it was time to continue the discussion without the comments about **GIGObuster** ’s emotions. I didn’t say anyone had done wrong, and I didn’t put my finger on the scales. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marley-youre-getting-worse-seriously/586056)._