[Serious] Proposing A Rule Change

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The "ignore" button cuts YOU off from the conversation. The person using demeaning hateful language is free to proceed on, leaving them, in the end, as the only voices heard.

If someone is a real knock kneed idiot and everyone puts them on ignore - haven't they effectively gone away?

Some folks can't resist feeding a troll. It's a bad idea, even they admit it, but they can't stop.

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If I could erase all the hurtful slurs in the archive it wouldn’t be what we have now ( and possibly a third of the size). I have a handicapped brother and sister And grew up around A support circle that comprised a lot of under-represented people. I find the word highly offensive and the derivatives such as Christard. That being said logging onto a forum is engaging in a social contract where there is implicit opportunity to be offended. I’m actually not a fan of the slur rule. I wouldn’t want the responsibility of adjudicating it and actually recommend it be abolished for a clearer definition of flaming. I’m ok with people being offensive to me and others. I’m not ok with that being the only interaction. Posting repetitive slurs while adding nothing to the topic of the thread, should be corrected, but banning doesn’t seem to be too affective of a punishment for an emotional outburst, or to a troll which are the targets of the rule. I vote no.

I had fun with the autocorrect a decade or so back. One person insisted on using a word that wasn't even remotely acceptable, so I filter it to "I said something stupid right here".