(September 12, 2018 at 8:24 am)negatio Wrote:(emphasis mine)(September 12, 2018 at 7:42 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Gee, I wonder what "Whilist we are generally lenient of insulting language/rudeness in other forums" means and how it can be applied here, a forum not named Introductions...?
INTRODUCTIONS FORUM RULES.
Whilst we are generally lenient with insulting language/rudeness in other forums, this kind of behavior is explicitly disallowed in the Introductions Forum. Please welcome new members to the community in a nice manner, or refrain from welcoming them at all.
Note that this does not give you a carte blanche to act in an insulting or rude manner in other areas of the forums. Please try to be welcoming and friendly at all times, even if a member is disagreeing with you. Rather than engaging with spammers and trolls, please report them to the staff and let us take care of them.
Please direct your attention to the third sentence in the above series of five sentences. The third sentence disallows ever being insulting or rude in any area of the forums, to any member,
including newbies, and, overrides the first clause of the initial: "We are generally lenient with insulting language/rudeness in other forums, this kind of behavior is explicitly disallowed in the Introduction Forum."
Sentence three contradicts and overrides the first clause of sentence one.
The 'this' contained in the first three words of sentence three appears to be referring back to "Whilst we are generally lenient with insulting language/rudeness in other forums...
Sentence three of the series would have been absolutely clear had the auteur taken the time actually repeat what he is referring to, thus:
Note that whilst we are generally lenient with insulting language/rudeness in other forums, that general leniency does not give you a carte blanche to act in an insulting or rude manner in other areas of the forums. It is all so simply simple.
During Negatio's newbie period, a responsible staff, given that Negation was a newbie totally unconscious of even the existence of the Introductions area of the forum, would either disallow any insulting/rude conduct to be directed against Negatio in the philosophy forum, or, would have been lenient up to a point, and, then, put a period to the constant ongoing insults transpiring against Negatio; a responsible staff most certainly would not have participated in insulting Negatio by accusing him of being a troll, which is an insult. Negatio
That third sentence does in fact allow insult and rudeness "up to a point," and that point at which the insult and rudeness may be disciplined is when a member repeatedly makes posts which are nothing but insults. That is called flaming, and is covered by the rule against flaming. That is what it means when it says you are not given carte blanch to be rude and insulting because that specific behavior is forbidden. That you don't understand this and are reading that third sentence to mean that members are forbidden from being rude and insulting to you simply shows that you have serious reading comprehension issues. Members are freely allowed to be insulting and rude so long as they do not cross certain lines covered by the flaming rule, the prime directive, and in certain cases, the trolling rule. That is all that "not given carte blanch" means. You are misreading that third sentence and coming to an understanding of it that is incorrect.
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