I find that a zero-tolerance approach to things is much more efficient. Screw leeway.

Sigh... I thought you would have understood that it was a joke. I have always thought that everybody can joke... but it seems that just the powerfuls here can do it. If I wrote wrong here... try to understand.

If I had a penny for every time someone on the internet has used the 'it was just a joke!' shtick to cover their asses, I'd have something like 26 pennies.

I thought it was a joke. At least, I didn’t assume it wasn’t.

It did seem like a sarcastic joke to me. I'd have posrepped if I could. Oh well.