(November 17, 2016 at 11:05 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I just disagree that we should ban anyone based on how they make other people feel. Spamming wholly unrelated things and advertising... Sure, that should be banned. But banning someone because your itty-bitty feelings are offended or because they trigger your intellectual complacency.. That is policing speech and it might very well be a remnant of the currently rampaging PC movement. It's the stupidest thing I can think of and it creates an environment where everyone agrees with everyone with the exception of a few chose cases which are kept around for entertainment purposes... Such as Rik.
I'm not staff, though, and staff will never agree with me on principle, me thinks. But I thought I should begin a discussion about it nonetheless. If it fails, I will probably begin one unrelated to the forum rules and more about this phenomenon in general...
I don't agree that we are policing speech. Again, this isn't about some one off thing or even a few posts. This rule is designed to detect people who do this repeatedly. There are also ways in which you can express an opinion which people disagree with, but doing it in a non-provocative way.
