2015-10-10 10:49 GMT+02:00 Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>: > I have suspended Friedrich Volkmann from this list for one month for > incivility. > >
can you please explain, where? Is it because he didn't "retract" the "get a life"? Or because he was complaining that he got rebuked and Florian wasn't? > Please be tolerant and considerate in your postings, and avoid insults. > yes, (it looked to me as if he didn't completely understand how strong the words were, he had used. I'm not understanding it myself either ;-) There's something written here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_life_%28idiom%29 which suggests to me it isn't very strong (e.g. used for workoholics) > If you do not understand a particular idiom, please don't use it. > yes, naturally, but the problem is you might think you understood an idiom, but you got it wrong, or you get the meaning right but don't understand how strong/weak it is (that's typically the main problem with people speaking another language). I believe banning someone from the lists, especially if s/he is at the time engaged in a discussion, is a very hard reaction that should be reserved to very few cases, in particular those that don't react positively to a first or second admonishment. Cheers, Martin
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