Here's my contention with the idea of banning insults here. With a forum that is about controversial topics to begin with, who is to say what is an insult and what isn't? Sure, you have the moderators who could say "It's alright to call someone ignorant, if they obviously are, but it's not okay to call someone a bitch." However, you would then have people saying "Hey, how come my friend so and so got banned for calling someone a bitch, but it's okay for that guy to call me ignorant?" Another hypothetical case would be one of us calling someone we are familiar with a bitch and having it be taken as the joke that it is and then having someone come in griping that it's okay for one person to get away with it and not another. My point is, this leaves a lot of room for even more arguing.
Maybe I'm just not that easily offended. I have had people go off on me online before and I was never scared off an argument or a site. I had a guy tell me that I have sex with barn animals in a very offensive manner, but I just laughed. Of course, it would be foolish for me to expect everyone to take that approach, but I wish they would.
I can still swear and make sexual innuendos, if this passes, right?
Maybe I'm just not that easily offended. I have had people go off on me online before and I was never scared off an argument or a site. I had a guy tell me that I have sex with barn animals in a very offensive manner, but I just laughed. Of course, it would be foolish for me to expect everyone to take that approach, but I wish they would.
I can still swear and make sexual innuendos, if this passes, right?
