--- In [email protected], Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Off-World, you're making some good points, I think. Insults can fall anywhere on a line continuum, from a 1 to a 10, with sarcasm being a 1. So where do we draw the line on the line? Well, sarcasm is considered a fair strategy in a formal debate. Name-calling isn't. Implying that someone's reasoning isn't sound, or even saying so outright, is also allowed in a formal debate. Outrightly calling someone stupid isn't. >>
Lol, sarcasm is not considred a fair strategy it is flaming. > > What would a basketball game be with no rules? There wouldn't be a game. Rules -- the good ones -- exist to promote the game, to protect people's fun, not to spoil it.>> The rules have not been agreed upon. The rule should be that when someone admits that they deliberately are on FFL to get people angry, they should be banned for that. There are at least 2 people who have admitted to that, and they have no place on FFL. You should also be almost be banned for supporting these flamers outright, and for using irrational arguments and poorly developed depth of perception on a topic. It is an insult to my intelligence and people should be banned for insulting people. Who decides the rules of flaming? If someone admits that they come on here deliberately to inflame, push people's buttons and anger people, then that, in my book is by far the worst form of flaming...and to everyone here that does it....you are a sad and pathetic little man. Now, the rules were ill-considered to continue to allow someone to post who admits they post only to people they disagree with to makw them angry so that they can take over the board with one-sided people who congratulate themselves all the time for having gottn rid of anyone they don't agree with. That is Nazism and should be against the rules. Hence Lurk who is the one who has been going on and on about flaming ad nauseaum, should be banned for all these reasons above. Those are the new rules. Admitting to deliberate inflaming should be dealt with. OffWorld
