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Vote on Adopting a "No Personal Attacks/Insults" Rule (Mod Sponsored Community Poll)

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Should P&N Formally Adopt a "No Personal Attacks or Insults" Rule?

  • Yes

  • No

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DominionSeraph said:
What are you, a 50th percentile who is too dim to recognize that there are differences in level of intellect?

Stupid people abound. Labeling them as such is just accurate reporting.
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So let me guess....your so enlightened that you think an insult even if its the truth is acceptable and as such not an insult.....sad and pathetic!!

Thats okay -- Jesus Loves you!!
 
JEDIYoda said:
So let me guess....your so enlightened that you think an insult even if its the truth is acceptable and as such not an insult!
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You're not very good at this "guessing" thing.
A mind cannot encompass a mind greater than itself. Thus your difficulties modeling mine.
 
DrPizza said:
If that's how you feel about a poster, then why are you bothering to engage them in a conversation in the first place? It just adds too much noise to a thread. Some of the threads in P&N have 300 replies, 4 or 5 of which have content, and 295 of the rest of the posts are just people calling each other idiots without backing up any of their arguments.
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Then perhaps a tagging system would be preferable. Have an option to hide posts tagged as #insult for the weak-kneed pansy folk, and let the people who so choose read an unadulterated conversation.

I voted no.
I appreciate posters who take the time to insult me.
 
JEDIYoda said:
actually in attempting to deal with me, your mind has finally run into a mind greater than itself!!
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Yet you were quite wrong. You read in a statement -- "it is not an insult" -- that exists nowhere in my writings. That this is the case is an objective fact, so there is no question that you did not have such to use as a valid premise. A leap in logic is a leap in logic, which rather speaks against your greatness.
So, even if your thoughts are so convoluted that they are beyond my ability to model, analysis of the output shows that your system -- whatever it may be -- isn't very good.


If the goal is to reach Chicago in two hours, hale and hearty, and you show up two days late missing an arm and with one of your eyeballs dangling from its socket, I don't really care if your method was so advanced that you ripped a hole in spacetime, killed God, and repeatedly penetrated Jesus' anus with your penis -- I can still conclude that the particular method you used wasn't good enough to get you to Chicago in two hours, hale and hearty. :biggrin:
 
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Why does it seem like P&N keeps looking for solutions to problems that just dont exist?

The average political IQ of the person posting on this sub-forum is much lower than other purely political forums. It is not going to change, no matter how much you try and regulate it, IDC.

As we all know, the first thing someone does when they do not have an intelligent response is to call names/de-rail or otherwise waste the 2 seconds of my life it takes to read their worthless post. Trying to weed that out here won't work, without drastically killing off the topic and post counts.
 
Idontcare said:
If adopted, the rule would only be extended to cover insults and personal attacks of registered anandtech forum members.

Insulting Obama would be fine, provided Obama does not become a registered member of the forum.

Attacking Obama's political policies and platform would be acceptable in all cases, regardless whether or not he is a member of ATF.

Administrator Idontcare
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But he is. 😱
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33075578&postcount=34
 
I'm not sure why your discussing this with us. Seems to me that this discussion should be amongst the Mods and whether they want to deal with it.

Personally I don't see how Personal Attacks add anything to discussion. They are little more than Neffing with a little bit of rage attached to it.
 
sandorski said:
I'm not sure why your discussing this with us. Seems to me that this discussion should be amongst the Mods and whether they want to deal with it.

Personally I don't see how Personal Attacks add anything to discussion. They are little more than Neffing with a little bit of rage attached to it.
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A well crafted insult is its own reward.
 
cybrsage said:
An insult, no matter how true it may be, is still an insult. This should be obvious to someone who claims to be as smart as you claim to be.

If insults are not allowed, then insulting someone is not allowed. Again, this should be obvious to someone who claims to be as smart as you claim to be.

So which part are you confused about? The part where an insult is an insult or the part where if insults are not allowed then insults are not allowed?
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Still waiting for Dominion to say which part his elite mind is confused about.
 
monovillage said:
dank69 and I disagree on many things, but in this he reveals a deeper truth that there is no greater joy nor greater reward then a humorous and well placed insult.
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The more I think about it, the more I realize that it really is an important part of P&N. The only other place you can insult stupidity is in OT, but most of the time the posters in OT are just joking and don't really believe what they are typing. They are just typing those things for the lulz. However, in P&N, most people really do believe the shit they are shoveling.

I really think it will be a big mistake if this part gets implemented, and it looks from the voting that it might, but at least we have a trial period where we can revert if it turns out poorly. I've been wrong in the past though, so maybe it will turn out great. Maybe all the trash will leave and we will be left with serious debate. I don't think a significant proportion of P&N posters are capable of serious debate, though. I just hope it doesn't become a ghost town. Time will tell I guess.
 
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Idontcare said:
Conflated identities do not count, insult the president of the USA all you like. If Barack Obama takes exception to the insults, and proves to the ATF FD's that he is a member of these forums, then that is a different situation.
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I disagree. The President is an institution, and as such is always an appropriate target for personal insults. If he were to resign then I would afford him the common decency of a private citizen but as long as a person wields the coercive power of the Federal government, then they shouldn't require an army of forum ninnies to protect their feelings.
 
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There are several hear that can't post without it being a personal attack, it will be interesting to see how well they hold up when constrained to actual debate. The secondary approach appears to be congratulating oneself on his/her own tremendous hulking intellect, an approach guaranteed to produce mockery and sneers, fueling the flames of self induced superiority to ever greater heights of stupidity.

I can hardly wait.
 
While some P&N comments and insults cross the lines of propriety and decency, I would still appreciate the right to call a Stooge a Stooge.
 
Infohawk said:
Why? Does it really change anything?
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So long as I maintain propriety and decency, I fail to see what it hurts. Those who do not maintain propriety or decency reveal their character and enable us to better evaluate the context of their posts.
 
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