Context is a poster who has been making the argument that Democratic administrations, including Obama, have all been so much the corporate water carriers, that why should one bother to vote for one if it is not Sanders.
It’s not an all warm and fuzzy response but a personal insult?
Huh? The comment seems no worse than bwahaha to me.
Was told to o knock it off…chose not to…where’s the controversy?
Whether he actually did or not. I don’t see the insult in that post, either.
Here’s the offending post and mod note from earlier in that thread:
And the latest post that received the warning:
The first post is clearly (IMHO) insulting, the second post maybe not so much, but given the previous mod note and the parallel language (go play in your [stein/green] sandbox], I’m not sure what Slacker expected.
Yeah, the insult is right there. He’s not talking about anonymous voters, but to the poster(s) here on this MB he is responding to.
It falls within the insult line…especially after I told everyone - and SlackerInc especially - to calm it down. If Slacker doesn’t want to listen to moderation he should be prepared to receive warnings.
Going bwahahah at someone is not insulting but telling them, even colorfully, to go ahead and waste your vote voting for an irrelevant party, I don’t give fuck, is?
Ooookay. Youse all da mods. I’ll move along.
(No disagreement that “psychotic break” deserved a note.)
“If it makes you feel pure and righteous” is, IMO, the most insulting part–it, along with the rest of the post, is pretty clearly calling its object a self-righteous child.
The Elections forum has become a goddamn cesspool. I appreciate more mod notes/warnings being given out.
And yet I see that very valid: is it better to vote for someone who you know has no chance to win and remain “pure and righteous” or (and this is not at the same level?) should one “hold your nose” and vote for a candidate that can win?
To stay feeling pure and righteous or to feel compromised is exactly the dynamic being discussed. How is that insulting?
I think steronz spelled it out pretty clearly in post 4. SlackerInc used almost all the exact same insulting verbiage from the post he was warned for but dropped the bit he figured was the “direct insult” part, basically playing “I’m not touching you!”.
I would regard the more insulting part to be “go play in the irrelevant Green Party sandbox,” indicating the other person is childish.
In any case, it it clearly a personal attack directed at the person rather than what they said, which is what Jonathan instructed against doing.
I really don’t understand how you can’t see that the post is insulting and a personal attack.
On it’s own, that post might not have caught attention. But on the heels of a similar remark that was a lot more hostile and a mod note calling for the whole tone of the thread to calm down and specifically calling out SlackerInc, it’s appropriate.