# Mhendo's suspension

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mhendos-suspension/636142>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 28, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mhendos-suspension/636142 "2012-09-28T15:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mhendos-suspension/636142/8 "2012-09-28T15:49:56Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> Well, on that I’ll take your word for it

I’m not sure people who curse out the staff have any expectations of confidentiality, but I think you’re going to have to take our word on it.

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> Calling people “self-righteous” and “condescending” shouldn’t be a violation of rules - those are pretty specific descriptions of posting behavior

That’s a very selective quoting of the post, which I’m quoting in full here. These are insults of the person making the posts. The rule is that you can attack the arguments, but not the person making the posts. You can characterize an argument or arguing style. I don’t recall any dispensation for “descriptions of posting behavior.” That’s too vague to be useful and would seem to allow for personal insults.

> [@Why is Diamonds02 limited to starting one new thread per week?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-diamonds02-limited-to-starting-one-new-thread-per-week/635934/53):
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> Do you have to practice to be so self-righteously condescending in these threads, or does it come naturally?
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> Why don’t you just beg for your old job back, already? It’s clear that you can’t get by without it; at least then you’d have some institutional justification for your unwarranted sense of superiority.

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