Well, crap, i started my own thread, but this one was already here, so i’ll repost my OP here and ask for my other thread to be closed.
In the BBQ Pit thread about the police officer, we have the following exchange:
You are completely and utterly wrong here. We’ve even gone over this exact issue before in ATMB. The rule states, very specifically:
Bolding mine. There is NO RULE against using that word to refer to someone who is not a member of the Boards.
Not only that, but back in April twickster ordered someone not to use the word “cunt” against a non-Doper third party in a Cafe Society thread, and in the end it was agreed by members and mods alike that this had been a bad decision. You yourself said, in the ATMB thread on the issue:
Why now do you insist on enforcing a non-rule that you knew very well was a non-rule?