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Originally Posted by Cuepee
I get that and I agree but my question is 'if Bowser starts his post with an accusation of someone being 'racist', 'transphobic', etc, and that is there norm, will you be deleting all of those? I think that will clean up this forum immensely and then me or others saying 'those two people regularly weaponize such terms, simply will become unnecessary'.
I will be pleased with the change and happy to report any such instances of accusations.
I would have to see the actual post in question, but in general my answer is yes. It is one thing to say that you believe a person's comment is racist. It's another to state that the person is a racist. To make that determination would require either personal experience with the person, or a rather extensive record of writings espousing racist ideas.
From what I have observed with some members having many months or years of debating back and forth, perhaps with harsh words, that there is an almost routine, obligatory off hand comment or dig included in most posts, whether it relates to the particular thread or not. But going forward, I'm asking that people declare an amnesty of sorts, and a truce on the personal insults. For example, it's little things like the difference between:
"I believe you missed the point I was making about the word guys..."
vs
"I believe you missed the point I was making about the word guys, just like you missed my points in the Musk thread and the Transgender thread, and every other thread you post in because your reading comprehension sucks."
One is a nice way of disagreeing; the other is not nice.