Eric, you said you would not post any more. The issue isn't that Mary Yugo insults people. The issue is that you ALLOW those insults from one side but not another. You like to read intent in what I do but you aren't reading intent into what THEY do.
And I'm not even saying to exclude Mary. I'm saying you should quote everyone's post who has an insult, take out the insult, and post the uninsulting post while moving the original post to your garbage thread. I think if you did that you would find tons of insults from one side and not so many from our side. But you aren't listening, you have your head firmly up your back side. "once discussion devolves into trading of insults" -- here is a prime example. The discussion devolves as soon as the FIRST insult is thrown, not the second. The legal principle is to focus on the guy who throws the first punch, not the second. I'm shaking my head at how incredibly stupid you have set things up and even defend the stupidity. Vorts will see for themselves whether you pull your head out of your ass. And there's a thread that I posted about how many replications there are where you allowed Shanahan to derail even though one of the posted goals of the moderators is to not allow threads to get derailed. On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > You claim that by giving Mary the boot you'd be editorializing the content >> but you're already editorializing the content by coming down hard on only >> one side of the insults. >> > > Crass language and attacks are not content; they're just ways of > undermining a civil discussion. Sometimes Mary insults people, but this is > more because she has no filter rather than because she's seeking to > escalate a discussion into a fight. There is no charge to her insults. > She almost always focuses on substantive points. To exclude Mary, whose > views are controversial and disagreeable to many, would be to subtly shape > the debate and exclude someone who has occasionally been a source of > interesting information. > > Debate consists of arguments; once a discussion devolves into attacks and > the trading of insults, it is no longer a debate. Discussion with Mary > never devolves into the simple trading of insults as she almost always > addresses some substantive point. > > Eric > >
