The moderating issue is up to Wabbit and others but presumably if someone is being insulted ("get over yourself, and quickly") they are entitled to respond without that incurring a penalty?
I would respectfully submit that when members registered here, this presumption of putting up with insults and being expected to respond in kind wa not part of the agreement. The rules specifically state:
3.1 We do encourage lively discussions and debate.
Personal attacks against members of the site will not be tolerated.
Any person attacking another member of the site will have their post edited, and a warning issued.
Clearly from the rules, personal attacks are not to be tolderated and that those who feel they may have a compelling instance of being insulted cannot be presumed to just live with it or hash it out with the other party.
Shade, I completely understand your desire to protect your friend, but I'm afraid that his posts have contained a good number of personal attacks. It's one thing to go after J.K. Rowling's writing or the latest Potter book plot or ending, it's quite another to ruminate about others lack of intelligence, comprension, reading, and status as an adult.
More specifically,
Those who enjoy these books have empty lives-
My life really isn’t that vacant.
Once again, getting personal, nothing to do with the work at hand-
I’ve mention like very likes of a Lewis Carroll in various tirades against Harry Wanker supporters with pubic hair…
Not a person's post critiqued here mind you, but their ability to comprehend, that's personal-
We seems to have a *serious* diversion of “reading” versus “comprehension” here
People on this board are incapable of reading, hardly a compliment here-
A detective you will not make. I assure you. Maybe not even a reader.
Which runs along the lines of.....
certainly can’t even read my posts properly and want to dispense “advice”?
A fellow member is called a child-
but if you’re just going to whine and throws your toys out of the crib, simply don’t read my posts
Still a personal attack point, not one relating to a work
Most everyone else seems on the defence because they can’t form thought
Another reading ability personal attack-
didn’t “tell”. I asked.
Read and re-read before you try to analyze where I’m coming from.
Yep, members of the board are nothing-
Those reading “adult” books tend to spout of a bunch of nothingness too.
Do I really have to state the obvious?
I was under the impression you had nothing to say even before this.
I'm not certain how this is constructive in any way-
Please stop reading my posts until you can come up with something even vaguely coherent.
We're all children-
if anyone can recommend me a book-themed message board that isn’t filled with a bunch of people drooling over kiddie books
Now I don't doubt that other posters have gotten personal as well, but I really don't agree with this statement:
In my general posts, very rarely if ever am I insulting to an individual
So in summary
Shade, I contend that the rules are very specific about this and that those who have complained about your friend are hardly delusional or simply easily offended. I also believe that the quotes that I have provided clearly show that contrary to
Jay's last quoted comment, he has gotten personal.
