How would you feel about a fuzzy speed limit? Where the cops decide when you’re going too fast?
Do you seriously expect private property to have the same rules as public property?
Speed limits are totally different than what amounts to a polite conversation in a privately owned space. Just like you can act one way around your friends and family but the same behavior would get you in trouble at work or in a restaurant or something. Rules of etiquette are fuzzy but we all know someone who’s acting like a jerk at a party when we see one.
Why you think message board rules are like actual laws is beyond me but I will assume that you are being sincere for the sake of argument.
A speed limit is analogous to a threat of violence here. It’s something that’s not fuzzy.
Reckless driving is an example of a fuzzy line where a cop uses judgment. Both have both things.
I’d tell you “nice try” but that was such a feeble attempt that I’m not even going to do that.
Fuzzy, subjective rules are intrinsically unclear.
Actually, speed limits aren’t all that bright line, either, as anyone who’s ever been ticketed for “driving too fast for conditions” will tell you. Go ahead and argue with a judge that there should be specific, bright-line speed limits that change for each precise road condition and see how far that gets you.
In this case this is a feature, not a bug. “Don’t be a jerk” and “don’t troll” are inherently fuzzy. There’s no way to make them not fuzzy. Highlighting the fuzziness should dissuade posters from trying to find exactly where the line is just so they can push up to it and no further, since there is no such line.
Yes! Exactly.
I’m glad you get it. Fuzzy lines encourage better behavior through uncertainty on the part of misbehavers.
That’s the beauty of it!
LOL.
Shodan, your post was a perfect example of “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
Congratulations on your well-deserved warning.
Love it! I may just have to borrow that one now and then.
You mean, like in real life?
Exactly!
What’s your point?
The topic of this thread being resolved, and given the outcome, I’m closing this thread.
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