Concerns about moderating policies

[Storker]

I like him better than I like you

That's something, at least...

 

[dumpsterDiver]

I .much prefer to receive insults publicly as well.

 

[Bennno]

I .much prefer to receive insults publicly as well.

He has to PM the personal insults, posting them would be against the ToS and he would have to report himself.

 

[Diving Dubai]

I should invite my friend here, he's the champion of insults. His trick is to use Victorian or Edwardian English. So very polite, and it's not until you've stopped laughing do you realise that you've been insulted.

He would escape the TOS (given the debate on the word moron)

 

[Storker]

I just wonder how long you moderators will take all the sh*t that Bennno trows at you.

We're not allowed to let personal preferences and antipathies affect our job. That includes disregarding attacks on how we do our job, and disregarding thinly veiled insults on us, our lineage, our habits etc.

That's one of the many perks that come with the job.

 

[Bubblesong]

Warning to all who argue online, trying to reprimand someone for their poor word choice is like trying to hit a puppy with meatballs.

 

[The Chairman]

Why is it a twist when I simply show you to be wrong? How is that wrong? If your words can be taken more than one way, then try to write more precisely.


@Bennno: Did you report any of those "rumors"?

 

[Jack Hammer]

Wow! This thread had gotten pretty moronic...

 

[MMM]

I went back into our archives to find, what I thought, was one of the best descriptions by a former mod of what was or was not a personal insult. Here it is: "My contention is that what one poster thinks of another poster is inherently off-topic. My belief is that if what another poster said was untrue, it should refuted with facts, not with characterizations of the person who said it."

So in other words, refute the problems and stay away from any characterizations of any kind.

 

[Freewillow]

We're not allowed to let personal preferences and antipathies affect our job. That includes disregarding attacks on how we do our job, and disregarding thinly veiled insults on us, our lineage, our habits etc.

That's one of the many perks that come with the job.

What is "veiled" into saying to somebody that he is a "liar" or "dishonest"?