# So it's okay to call another poster "goddamn liar" in IHMO now? Was it always okay? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 23, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-okay-to-call-another-poster-goddamn-liar-in-ihmo-now-was-it-always-okay/656472 "2013-04-23T04:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 53
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-okay-to-call-another-poster-goddamn-liar-in-ihmo-now-was-it-always-okay/656472/53 "2013-04-26T03:11:57Z")
> [@Men's Rights Movement may have a big future.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-rights-movement-may-have-a-big-future/655049/326): > > So, just out of curiosity, as you were reviewing that thread for infractions did you happen to stumble upon the following section as far as “being a jerk” or threadshitting, or just the comments from the women who were participating? > > > [@Men's Rights Movement may have a big future.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-rights-movement-may-have-a-big-future/655049/326): > > > > . . . maybe it’s because you spent so much money and time earning that women’s studies degree and what I and others are bringing forward gets you all cranky. > > > > Sorry I know it sucks , maybe you should of taken a trade instead. > > Snarky? Threadshitting? What you’re actually asking here, I suppose, is: Okay, who started this shit anyway (in that MRM thread)? Well, for starters, everybody started piling on right from Post #2, but it didn’t start getting, you know, actually _nasty_ until all the way in at . . . Post #19: > [@Men's Rights Movement may have a big future.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-rights-movement-may-have-a-big-future/655049/19): > > The AWAGL\* movement may get larger, that’s ok, it’s less competition for the rest of us. > > \*Assholes Who Aren’t Getting Laid . . . and that was a male poster who wrote that, BTW. Leading immediately to the next post: > [@Men's Rights Movement may have a big future.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-rights-movement-may-have-a-big-future/655049/20): > > That’s exactly what I was thinking. Seems like every book or website devoted to men’s rights devotes half the text to complaints about custody and financial support after divorce, and half to complaints about being denied a rightful proportion of pussy guaranteed by our constitution or some blather. Seriously reduces the legitimacy of the entire campaign. Personally, related specifically to this, I’m seriously PO’d that ALL men’s issues are met with the standard “Look who isn’t getting his daily pussy” meme. You see misogyny with every “Boob Pix” snark, but I see serious misandry with every shitty mention of that old Vitamin P trope. There can be utterly no discussion of men’s issues without this coming up. (Go ahead . . . I’m waiting for it . . . ) So, to keep this post appropriate for an ATMB thread, I wonder: What, if anything, should mods be doing about that? Personally, I’m all for greater freedom of discussion rather than less. So this kind of incivility needs to reach some certain _really nasty_ level before the mods should step in. (Yes, I felt you did that with your goddamn liar remark — not just those two words, but that whole paragraph.) Am I’m sore that, in light of the misogyny flame-up, mods have gone to the lengths of modding those two minor lines (by **HL** and **AR** in the Sorority Queen thread), and even seeming to agree with the suggestion that we need to be careful with the word “hysteria” — that’s serious overkill — but every one of those stupid Vitamin P posts is an insult, and derails whatever anyone was trying to say. Does that violate any Board rule? What rule is this board missing, to keep that shit civil? It’s not up there with “goddamn liar”. But I’d call it on threadshitting. The MRM thread was full of that. And upon reviewing (as you suggest), I’m going with Post #19 as the start of the train wreck in the MRM thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-its-okay-to-call-another-poster-goddamn-liar-in-ihmo-now-was-it-always-okay/656472)._