# Personal insults? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 29, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-insults/508193 "2009-08-29T20:27:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-insults/508193/9 "2009-08-29T23:57:03Z")
> [@leander](#): > > Oh come on. I conceded in the oringal thread that my “reading comprehension” comment was the only thing \*close \*to a personal insult, and even the mods are not sure if it is (see tomndebb’s post above). > > And even you have agreed that this is a far cry from “filled with your personal insults to people”. > > (Frankly I think I just pissed off TubaDiva by pointing out her ignorance in the Atalaya thread.) From your first post, it looked like you were soliciting others’ opinions. Then you wanted to argue with them. Now it looks like you want to continue old arguments - and we haven’t even reached post #10! > [@](#): > > (see tomndebb’s post above). What I saw was a mod saying that a behavior **might be over the line** and admonishing a poster **not to do it again**. It does not establish that such comments are acceptable - quite the opposite, in fact. It might truly be inconsistent modding. So what? “Everyone else was speeding!” will not get you out of a ticket. But it might be that the mod noted that the poster’s transgression was preceded and followed by posts that did not contain personal insults, which might have earned him some clemency. Compare: > [@tomndebb, get in or get out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-get-in-or-get-out/507683/84): > > FinnAgain’s usual frothing at the mouth nasty tone and attitude. > [@tomndebb, get in or get out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-get-in-or-get-out/507683/88): > > FinnAgain’s typical spittle flecked rants. > [@tomndebb, get in or get out](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-get-in-or-get-out/507683/95): > > My “cite” was that entire page of your usual over the top vitriol. As I said, it’s unfortunate that you can’t get that little tick under control, but that’s really your problem, not mine (thank Og). Comments such as “usual frothing at the mouth nasty tone and attitude” and “typical spittle flecked rants” _are_ personal insults, not related to a specific post or thread. Are you really going to say they weren’t intended to be personally insulting? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-insults/508193)._