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Originally Posted by reconmike
Ok, so a lefty leaning book coined the phrase, does that still make it appropriate and or acceptable? I was chastised once by a mod for using the name Hellery, so if I can find where the term originated and post a link that makes it ok?
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Mike, from my point of view, you can call any nonmember any name you want and be as disrespectful to them as you want. However, if a national political figure became a member here, you'd have to be as respectful of them as you are supposed to be of any other member.
In other words, you can call Nixon a crook, but you can't call me one. You can change Hillary Clinton's name into a clever (or not-so clever) pun, but you can't change mine. Clear enough? When I read posts with my moderator hat on, I look only for insults aimed at other members and couldn't care less about your opinion of someone outside of TFP until I take my moderator hat off and respond to the actual topic at hand.
And I'll agree with Uber that calling anyone names makes the writer look juvenille but that it shouldn't have any impact on any official action.