Which Insults Are Still Allowed On Here

[SimonMac]

Banned, just for a day for:

So back to my original question, which insults are still allowed?

[AtW]

So back to my original question, which insults are still allowed?

You can only find that out experimentally.

[NotAllThere]

There's a few banned words, but if I told you what they were, I'd have to ban myself. Other than that, pretty much anything goes.

Problems arise when people get too much into or every other post is slagging someone off, or, and particulary relavent at the moment, when you're told to pack it in and you keep going on and on and on and on. That's when you're likely to get a smack on the wrist.

Also, if you continually flirt with what's acceptable and what isn't, eventually, you'll do something requiring action. I've noticed that people who do that are the first to complain about megalomania and favouritism. As though the power of being able to stop someone posting on a site for a few days would go to anyone's head. I just find it incredible that certain individuals think their contribution is soooooo important.

[NotAllThere]

You can only find that out experimentally.

It's a dice roll, so you won't.

[Old Greg]

So back to my original question, which insults are still allowed?

In what context?

[SimonMac]

There's a few banned words, but if I told you what they were, I'd have to ban myself. Other than that, pretty much anything goes.

Problems arise when people get too much into or every other post is slagging someone off, or, and particulary relavent at the moment, when you're told to pack it in and you keep going on and on and on and on. That's when you're likely to get a smack on the wrist.

Also, if you continually flirt with what's acceptable and what isn't, eventually, you'll do something requiring action. I've noticed that people who do that are the first to complain about megalomania and favouritism. As though the power of being able to stop someone posting on a site for a few days would go to anyone's head. I just find it incredible that certain individuals think their contribution is soooooo important.

So I am ok to call you a humourless power crazy stasi-esque megalomaniac with a small willy and massive chip on you shoulder, as long as I dont repeat it too often? Speaking hypothetically though, I love all the mods really.

[realityhack]

Banned, just for a day for:

Damn, you beat me to it.

As to the original question - it's not an objective science. It has more to do with context & attitude than anything else. Clearly there are some words which will earn a slap or a ban, as has been demonstrated, but you should know what appropriate behaviour is here by now. I'm not drawing a line for people to flirt with just to test 'the system'. Who really wants a long list of rules, anyway? That's the sort of thing that would really kill a board, not the odd slap on the wrist.

As for the eternal 'it's not like the old days' refrain. Well, it never is, is it. However in days of yore the language was more moderated and the behaviour marginally less so. Admin lifted a lot of the syntax restrictions that existed on the old General forum, but that doesn't mean that persistent idiocy will be tolerated - with the exception of a few who can't help it, bless their cotton socks.

[SimonMac]

....but that doesn't mean that persistent idiocy will be tolerated - with the exception of a few who can't help it, bless their cotton socks.

Well admin should stop making them Mods then

[realityhack]

continually flirt with what's acceptable and what isn't... ...people who do that are the first to complain about megalomania and favouritism.

Ain't that the truth. Also, the first to report (harmless) posts are the first to accuse people of being a 'bedwetter', generally.

[realityhack]

Well admin should stop making them Mods then

I'm special, me.