(September 13, 2018 at 2:19 pm)negatio Wrote: emjay
I have not looked at the disclaimer.
Nothing prior or subsequent to Sentence three can obviate the very clear meaning of Sentence three. If the owners wanted Sentence three obviated, they would have erased the sentence, however the sentence still stands, and, all the staff and members who have broken the rule, by insulting Negatio, for three weeks, up to and including now, have a very personal interest in denying that the sentence is saying what it has said. Because, they, themselves can, then, be busted for violating the rule by insulting a new member. Kit and KevinM1 saw what the rule is saying, else, they would not have sent it to me, for my use.
You're wrong, again. Read it:
Rules Wrote:Atheist Forums (hereafter also referred to as "the website", "the site", "the forums", "atheistforums.org") reserves the right to enforce the following rules on its membership according to staff interpretation. This disclaimer is put in place to allow the spirit of the rules to trump any literal interpretation of the rules. The wording of these rules is chosen to decrease the number of misinterpretations, however they do arise and the final determination on how to interpret these rules is left to the staff. Nonetheless, discussion of potential changes to these rules is always welcomed and encouraged.
my bold
So even if you were right with your uber-literal interpretation of the rules, which you're not, the above disclaimer still trumps it.