RE: New Rule: No Personal Attacks
August 18, 2010 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2010 at 10:40 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
You know, of all this talk about how the man is keeping us all down by forcing us like dogs to not hurl insults at one another, I'm just going to pop in and say I'd rather be forced to not hurl insults at others than come here to be insulted.
Given that atheism is usually a fairly touchy subject with most people, you can't say that any forums focued on religion or lack thereof isn't going to attract trolls now or in the future. Regardless of the size of the forums and, honestly, since trolls are partly defined by how they go about insulting people, I'd rather deal with a few fewer posters who think the new rule means the mods will now have the power to rally a full squad of police in riot-gear to kidnap you and throw you in their troll-camp than have this place open to people whose idea of debate involves how much of an idiot I am (to put it nicely).
I have no idea why this is such a hot-button issue with some people since most of you don't even seem to have violated this rule now or in the past to an extent that warrents banning or other intervention. I seriously think that for most if not all of you, this rule could have been fully enforced the whole time and mostly likely all of you would have still made it here without being banned or even warned.
Just to note, I'm not referring to anyone specifically, just the general tone I've read from the last six pages or so.
Given that atheism is usually a fairly touchy subject with most people, you can't say that any forums focued on religion or lack thereof isn't going to attract trolls now or in the future. Regardless of the size of the forums and, honestly, since trolls are partly defined by how they go about insulting people, I'd rather deal with a few fewer posters who think the new rule means the mods will now have the power to rally a full squad of police in riot-gear to kidnap you and throw you in their troll-camp than have this place open to people whose idea of debate involves how much of an idiot I am (to put it nicely).
I have no idea why this is such a hot-button issue with some people since most of you don't even seem to have violated this rule now or in the past to an extent that warrents banning or other intervention. I seriously think that for most if not all of you, this rule could have been fully enforced the whole time and mostly likely all of you would have still made it here without being banned or even warned.
Just to note, I'm not referring to anyone specifically, just the general tone I've read from the last six pages or so.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
