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Originally Posted by tecoyah
Thus we have come to this new form of moderation, and new resolve. If you think we will consider it an attack.....dont post it, or rephrase it in such a way that you are more comfortable with your wording. Chances are if YOU think its bad, we will think its worse.
The hope is that people will begin to show respect for each other out of need, as a form of self preservation. Either that or they will need to find another forum that is more condusive to the form of debate they prefer.
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Self-restraint is clearly the first step to remaining in compliance with the rules. As you say, things have changed, so my past problems may now be moot. My point, though, was that in several past instances, I received responses that I thought were bad, but the moderators thought were just fine. My intent was to illustrate a category of insult that has been permitted in the past and, to my dismay, sounds like it may also be permitted in the future.
Neutrally applying the rules is important. However, it is also important that the rules be fair and comprehensive in the first place.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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