It's just not very clear. If the "Golden Rule" is selectively enforced, it's not really a rule.
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People are abusing that rule for spurious mass reporting of other users. I knew it would happen if we set out specific rules, that's one of the reasons I personally never put any rules in the sidebar. It's a nice idea, but in practice it goes like this:
People use the report feature as part of their debate strategy. They lay bait to another user they are arguing with, or start an argument with someone they don't get on with, just for the sake of arguing, and when their opponent strays outside of the topic of argument the comment is reported. Very reddit if you ask me.
Most reports here don't seem serious to me. And this website specifically has a free speech ethos, one that tolerates people calling each other names, and encourages moderators to refrain from being overbearing. Read the content policy.
Personally I don't think I've ever reported another user for some comment, on this forum or any other. When someone starts flinging insults in a back and forth, it means they have no argument and their opponent won - even if they don't see it that way. Continuing is pointless and irrational and never leads to resolution.
Sometimes I may have ignored a comment that warranted removal. That's not intentional. But I think most reports are of the caliber that I've described above. I do look out for the serious ones, but they are few and far between.
So, when you called me a liar multiple times, I won.
Cool.
Thanks for your input.
I don't think I called you a liar. I said you were telling lies about me, which you were, and then you said something like "so you're calling me a liar?". Anyway, calling someone a liar, who is specifically telling lies about you with malicious intent, is not slander. It's an accusation.
You are even LYING about calling me a liar.
WOW
I stand by my accusation. You told a lie about me to influence another mod in an attempt to get me removed as mod.
Holy shit, I have "malicious intent" now?
KEEP LYING
Saying "I dare you" to me is malicious.
You crimped my "free speech" with a threat.
Some "free speech ethos".
It literally isn’t. I dare you to disprove anything I have ever said which contradicts something you’ve said. You wouldn’t do it if I dropped the first four words. You wouldn’t do it if I swapped the first four words with “Can you please." You simply won’t do it, because you know you can’t. You’re so much of a coward that you refuse to defend yourself against truth. That tends to offend.
This is nice rhetoric and all, so that's why I was banned for over a month by Axo and threatened with banning by you, along with you calling me a liar, multiple times.
Ah yes, that free speech ethos.