It's all too common as well for language nannies not to give a damn about offending other people, and get all self-righteous and entitled when you point out their behavior.

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(June 1, 2013 at 6:49 pm)Rayaan Wrote: If that happens in a forum, however, and if the person says it consistently/repeatedly along with other insults, then it's quite probable that he's going to be put on a shorter leash by one of us (just for the sake of moderating the forum, I suppose), but that doesn't mean that his words actually affected me in any way.

What does being "put on a shorter leash" entail? I was on a forum, ironically called "Buddhism Without Boundaries," in which I posted a reply to a post from the perspective of Rawls' theory of justice. The moderators deleted it because it wasn't an answer from "a Buddhist perspective," but because nobody informed me that it had been deleted or why, I reposted it, thinking some browser glitch or something had swallowed it (their software had basically non-existent personal messaging). I was then put on special status where all of my posts had to be approved by a moderator before being added to a thread. (After a few weeks of good behavior and no change, I stopped visiting.) Buddhists are such assholes. Despite all their fluffy talk about compassion and tolerance, they are some of the most arrogant and intolerant people I know. I've come to appreciate the flipside of "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" being that people who go on ad nauseum about virtues are often the people most lacking in them; it makes perfect sense that people with ego problems would be attracted to a religion that preaches that egos are a problem and what to do about it.

Anyway, that's what "shorter leash" meant there (a vBulletin forum), and I know that we once had the Gauntlet. What does being put on a shorter leash at AF mean?