vball10set;1338700 wrote:What? If calling someone a fucktard isn't a personal attack, what is? Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending Durkie, 'cause he was warned a number of times about his "GFY's"--but please tell me that WebFire's post at least warranted a thread warning?
I know a mod sent it in for discussion, but I haven't seen.
The distinction is that calling someone a name, whether it contains naughty words or not, would have to be discussed, because some asshat on here would start calling people "fricktards" or something idiotic like that. So if that was to be deemed a personal attack, there would either have to be certain criteria to distinguish it from the rest of the names called or name-calling in general would have to be deemed a personal attack.
The distinction is that there had been a site-wide warning about using the term "Go fuck yourself." That was the one phrase where the jury was in. Moreover, Durkie himself had been banned for using it before, so it isn't as though the rule had somehow eluded him. He was specifically told that the phrase was going to be considered a personal attack. At that time, there were no others. Moreover, there was a forum where he could still use it however often he wanted. Instead, however, he decided to post it about 42 times (did a search for that day for posts by Durkie that contained the phrase) in a forum where it wasn't allowed.
In a way, if you're going to be banned, he did it in a rather entertaining fashion, though it made him seem like he had an extreme verbal tick, much like many think of when they hear "Tourette's."
Now, he's trying to find hypocrisy in this thread, but the fact remains that, at the very least, there has been no rule broken mentioned in here that was as clearly outlined as the one he copy-pasted all over the SB forum. Saying "fuck" is not breaking the rules. Being mean is not against the rules. Advocating suicide is not against the rules. Those examples of his in here were all fails. The others were, at worst, either not seen or haven't been decided yet.
Should calling someone an "idiot" be considered a personal attack, whether or not a synonym like "fucktard" is used? I don't know. Maybe there hasn't been enough discussion on it yet. Perhaps there needs to be. Either way, at the very least, that has yet to be determined (unless something has happened to which I am unaware).
