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Dino, dude, unexeptable posting. Freedom of speech (in ANY comunity or country) does not extend indefinitly. Slander is a crime. On forums, flaming is against the rules. And on a forum with potentialy young members, profanity should NOT be used.
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It doesn't count as slander if it's true or if it's stated as an opinion. We have a right to state our opinions and points of view - in fact that's the whole point of a forum. If people can't take that then they're not only not fit to be on a forum, they're also not fit for life. Life isn't all plain sailing, it's not all positive, and nobody is perfect. Sometimes you get offended, sometimes you look bad, but if you know anything about life then you do the smart thing and get over it.
Now before you go getting me wrong, I'm not trying to justify flaming here... there's a line between honesty and flaming. What I am trying to do though is oppose your politically correct suggestion that entirely outlawing negative opinions and points of view will solve flaming, because it won't.
How can anyone learn how to behave if everyone is too polite to say anything? How does censorship help in this scenario? Like I said, there's certainly a point where honesty turns into an actual attack, and I think that we should be weary of that. But really, what is the point in effectively painting smiles all over the community so that nobody ever looks unhappy? What you'd be creating wouldn't be real or appealing so people would just leave, and that would defeat the point.
The mods and admins have never shown any desire to install your sort of extremist utopian ideals anyway, so I don't even know why there is any kind of discussion about it.
My posting isn't unacceptable in my opinion. Used's is maybe, but mine isn't. In fact, I was partly joking around. I doubt that I offended anyone, I expect the majority of people will probably ignore it entirely, Fuzzle Guy included.
And Ambi, I'm curious, may I ask what gives you the right to judge the sincerity of my motives and act on that judgement as though your judgement is infallable?