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Please refrain from using abusive terms here on this forum.
by rituch 10y ago
Please refrain from using abusive terms here on this forum.
- Hondor 10y agoThat expression can indicate respect. That's how it appears to me in this context, not as abuse.
- obstacle1 10y agoOh good, it's the language police. What would this forum be, after all, without folks like you telling us what to say and how to say it!
- rituch 10y agoNot sure what is that, but I guess it's okay for a male dominated forum to disrespect females and still think that no one should complain about it.
- bitJericho 10y agoWhat makes you so sure anybody thought about the sex of the op? You seem like the sexist one here.
- user_0001 10y agoto the post below. The term "mother" fucker, may not insinuate fucking ones mother to you - perhaps you are desensitised to it, but to others from different cultures, countries it can be more / less offensive. If you think about certain words which are all but banned for some colours of society to say, they too used to be all prevalent and not thought of as a problem to say. Perhaps in 100 years from now, to suggest some one fucks their mother would be considered the same
- AJRF 10y agoWow, get real rituch.
- hartpuff 10y agoYou "get real". Not everyone is from an English speaking country or can differentiate 'earthy banter' from sincerely offensive epithets online.
- kingkawn 10y agoWhich is why the default reaction shouldn't be offense
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- hartpuff 10y agoWho said the default reaction should be offence then? Who even said rituch was personally offended by it? If someone doesn't recognize it as relatively harmless banter (which may be a matter of opinion anyway), then why would they not think it's inappropriate here, when this forum is known for being more civil than most, partly for the reason rituch gave? The "default" should be to recognize that misunderstandings happen online, and to definitely not post a rude, redundant comment like "get real" to an already heavily downvoted post that two other people have already addressed. Edit: Well, judging by the down and upvoting, it seems I'm in a minority, or a lot of 'free speech' warriors here don't understand the concept of private forums with rules, and think posts simply telling people to "get real" add to a discussion.
- user_0001 10y agoHow about he came out and said "yo bitch, that's crazy" or "my nigga, that's insane" These would be deemed unacceptable and rightly so.
- hartpuff 10y agoI assume you mean AJRF. Just because those two examples are unacceptable doesn't mean "wow, get real" is acceptable. If you disagree or don't understand why someone said something, then either forget about it, or reply to it for clarification or discussion. I mean why don't we all just post "get real" to everything or everyone we disagree with? Apparently a surprising number of people here can't think of a reason why not, since they think "get real" a fine response. Edit: Actually, I think you mean if the "motherfucker" guy had said those things, in which case, I agree. People defending the use of "crazy motherfucker" may indeed be offended by the examples you gave, or feel they are inappropriate here, but can't seem to understand that terms they think are fine may be considered inappropriate to other people.
- jere 10y agoHe didn't mean "crazy" literally.
- dang 10y agoProfanity and abuse are two different things. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11617591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11617591 and marked it off-topic.