# Mods-Please consider rescinding this warning **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-please-consider-rescinding-this-warning/599937 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [October 17, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-please-consider-rescinding-this-warning/599937 "2011-10-17T17:59:40Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23) #### Post date: [October 17, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-please-consider-rescinding-this-warning/599937/5 "2011-10-17T18:54:48Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > No, “asshole” is an insult when it’s _intended_ as an insult. You could say that about any word. When you’re saying it about another person, it’s almost always an insult. We give people a break when we can, but it becomes very difficult for us to enforce the rules we do have if we have to dig that deep to figure out someone’s intent. I believe you that you were kidding, but like the man says here: > [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > Our rules aren’t, and can’t be, based on the “spirit” in which something was said. We have no way to interpret or enforce “intentions.” The rules are enforced based on what people say/post, not on the reasons behind it. Sorry, but that’s the way it is and has always been. Sometimes you don’t say what you meant to say, you just say what you typed. It’s one of the limitations of a text-based medium. I believe you when you say you meant to say ‘I’m not offended, but how do you expect me to climb a tree,’ but you could have just posted all of that and you didn’t. What you did post was this: > [@Flirting, mutual attraction, etc.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirting-mutual-attraction-etc/599837/5): > > Asshole… > > 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-please-consider-rescinding-this-warning/599937)._