No consistency in application of insults rule

[PatriotNews]

What is insulting to me is having to read all these idiotic posts.

[Truth-Bringer]

Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer

What gets me about this whole thread is...IF a person has an issue about what a moderator does/doesn't do, why can't the person just handle the issue privately, through the pm/e-mail system with the moderator(s) and administration? Rather then air thier issues publically on the board, in order to get a board war going?

Honestly...This type of airing one's disagreement doesn't absolve/change an issue...All it does is make other members feel they have to choose a side and just create more problems then it fixes.

Oh come on... It may not do any good, but if you don't like the thread, then the solution is simple - DON'T READ IT.

[Truth-Bringer]

Originally Posted by catzmeow

I read the entire thread, one end to the other. If there were insults, they were removed. I edited, if I remember, one of your posts. That was in addition to several other threads last night that needed clean-up.

I don't edit disrespectful tone. I edit outright insults. Aka, yours.

Insofar as participation in the thread, I've participated in that thread as actively as you have. Perhaps you didn't read far enough forward. I would have liked to participate last night, but got busy cleaning up a couple of flame wars between other posters. For the record, EleanorAquitane, who you insulted, has never insulted you, from what I can tell. Not even once.

But Eleanor's tone was highly disrespectful. She was lying about my positions. To try and claim that I'm not a libertarian, when my views are equal to about 95% of Libertarian Party platform, was clearly an attempt to insult me.

And you never answered my question. You said: "I don't remember, but I suspect another poster reported them to us as personal insults."

If someone reported this, then there must be a message. Do you have a copy of that message?

[catzmeow]

Even if I did, I wouldn't share it with you. Nor do I feel obligated to explain my decision to you.

Are we clear?

[B L Zeebub]

Originally Posted by Truth-Bringer

But Eleanor's tone was highly disrespectful. She was lying about my positions. To try and claim that I'm not a libertarian, when my views are equal to about 95% of Libertarian Party platform, was clearly an attempt to insult me.

And you never answered my question. You said: "I don't remember, but I suspect another poster reported them to us as personal insults."

If someone reported this, then there must be a message. Do you have a copy of that message?

oh come on truth you had a pop she had a pop, if it will make you feel better lets engage in a few libertarian private messages! know what I mean, private social intercouse is fabI think I made an oxymoron

[ABoyNamedSue]

I think they should take this to the insult thread, and have a good old fashioned no-holds-barred cat fight.

[catzmeow]

SERIOUSLY!

Who doesn't love a cat fight?

Real women fight it out on the insult thread.

[Truth-Bringer]

Originally Posted by catzmeow

Even if I did, I wouldn't share it with you.

In other words, you don't have it and you fabricated that statement to try and provide a decent justification for your position.

Nor do I feel obligated to explain my decision to you.

And the Nazis didn't feel obligated to explain their decisions to anyone else either. Not an ethical position.

Are we clear?

No. The rules aren't clear, the application isn't clear, and the policy in general isn't clear.

[justabubba]

Originally Posted by ABoyNamedSue

I think they should take this to the insult thread, and have a good old fashioned no-holds-barred cat fight.

excellent idea

mods versus the lower echelon

is it bare knuckles or can we bring switchblades and reprehensible language?

my shirt will be the one with a target on it

[catzmeow]

TB:

I don't have to justify my position. You insulted other posters. You broke the rules by doing so. I was doing the job I was asked to do.

There is no justification for the position you've created for yourself.