Which Insults Are Still Allowed On Here

[MarillionFan]

Very simple (like some of the members). If you use certain words, you'll get infractions or banned for a bit. If you indulge in like SB and Zoiderman, and you keep on when asked to stop, you'll get infractions or banned for a bit.

Now that's clear, I'll get one with something far more intellectual - Britains Got Talent.

Britain's Got Talent.

FFS.

[northernladyuk]

Very simple (like some of the members). If you use certain words, you'll get infractions or banned for a bit. If you indulge in like SB and Zoiderman, and you keep on when asked to stop, you'll get infractions or banned for a bit.

Now that's clear, I'll get one with something far more intellectual - Britains Got Talent.

Is it permitted to call people very simple?

[MarillionFan]

Is it permitted to call people very simple?

Yes, unless it's Brillopad because he has a doctors note.

[mudskipper]

Yes, unless it's Brillopad because he has a doctors note.

doctor's note


FFS

[MarillionFan]

doctor's note


FFS

Touché.

[Old Greg]

doctor's note


FFS

doctors' note

[BrilloPad]

Yes, unless it's Brillopad because he is very simple and sensitive

FTFY

[oscarose]

drive down standards

[d000hg]

Serious question.
I was wondering, when these little spats break out on a thread, as they have been wont to do over the years, why is it that the current crop of mods feel that they have to get so heavily and actively involved and start dishing out infractions and threatening bans?
Such exchanges have happened quite regularly over the many years I have been on here, and provided they stay within General and don't get litigious, or ridiculously out of hand, they have largely been allowed to defuse of their own volition.
The robust nature of some of the debate on here is a very big part of the allure of the forum for many people, and, I thought, the very reason we have corraled off the General part from the other areas, and even labelled it with a warning of sorts.
I have heard it suggested that too much slanging in any given thread ruins it for other people. Hard to accept that really, there are always a gazillion threads on the go on here. If one is not to your liking simply jump into another one.
Frankly speaking, if the whole place is going to get too watered down and nicey-nicey then General might as well be mothballed.

Serious answer - probably because then people start spreading their little spats into unrelated threads and chasing their 'targets' around, like the current way every thread ends up as a slanging match about squaddies' IQs. To new members, that must look distasteful.

You doofus.

[Troll]

. To new members, that must look distasteful.

You doofus.

fook the noobs