No more so than having Aspergers is.
Could you point out to me where this request was made? I can’t seem to find it in any of the relevant threads.
SDMB Registration Agreement AS OF 12/29/2008?
Nope.
FAQ - Rules for Posting at the Straight Dope Message Boards?
Nope.
FAQ - Guidelines and Etiquette on the SDMB?
Nope.
Nor is there any mention of this in any of the forum rules threads for each individual forum. Most forums have rules about descriptive thread titles, but i couldn’t find a single place mandating, or even requesting, that thread titles outside The Pit be safe for work.
Reported.
I have no earthly idea what “twankled the crescendo moon” means, but I like it.
Actually, I said it was no more insulting than the previous remark, about which I said I had no idea what the *intent *was. I *had *indicated disbelief that it warranted a warning.
And anyone who takes “your mama wears combat boots” seriously as an insult needs to lighten up. Although I wasn’t warned for being insulting. I was warned for being unnecessary and personal. Try getting a range finder on that restriction.
No, I don’t ALFIWAAAH but I still don’t. A vowel?
Little things like this are why you’ll burn in hell!
A bit off topic of course, but I can’t help to wonder how **contrapuntal **et al would be like would they ever have children. Just thinking about it makes my head hurt. Imagine the, erm, “discussions” in such a family!
If I’d wished for the American troops to have successfully killed off every member of the “insurgency”, would that have been “being a jerk”? And if not, then why is the opposite “being a jerk”?
And to clarify, I haven’t “wished death on every American serviceman”; I’ve wished for the deaths of those in Iraq. You know; the ones involved in that whole aggressive war, conquest, occupation, torture thing. Since when is wishing for the destruction of conquering armies even unusual, much less “being a jerk”? Are all the millions of Iraqis who’d like to see the deaths of those who have devastated their nation and killed their friends and familes “jerks”?
Gee, Der Trihs, you’re really helping your case.
I see that not all unnecessary and personal posts are created equal.
Everything is relative. You’re not on the ICMB (Insurgency Central Message Board) you’re on the SDMB which is not primarily read and posted by insurgents.
If you did post that (“kill insurgents”) to the ICMB then you would have been a jerk on that board.
I don’t know. What’s the opposite of picnic table?
Some of whom are members of the SDMB, or were at the time, which makes it expressly forbidden, and very jerkish, IMO. I guess the rules are different for some folks.
Of course, it all pales beside “unnecessary and personal.” That’s some real serious shit right there.
If you are trying to pretend the two cases aren’t equivalent, you’re wrong.
Nonsense. The rule only applies when such threats are personal; not when they are aimed at a group that some poster that you aren’t even talking to (or aware of) happens to belong to.
And I’ve had wishes for my death, and more direct ones leveled at me here; people wishing for me to pick fights with some right wing thug and getting beaten to death for example. So whining about how I’m “wishing for the deaths” of posters because they happen to be the bad guys in a war that I want them to lose comes across as just that; whining.
This is all becoming way too personal in every direction.
Remember that this forum is About This Message Board. It should not be used as another forum to beat one another up.
If you have a problem with someone, take it to the Pit.
Stop pitching your battles in About This Message Board.
I’m leaving this thread open for now but if the slapping continues I will close it.