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Apparently, this deserved a warning. Not just a "Hey don't do that again," a full-up warning. The post was not attacking any individual in particular, or even anyone in general for that matter. It was an amusing play on words. Sure, it might have been off-topic, but at most, people would have just read it, chortled, and carried on with the thread. It would really be scraping the barrel if someone somehow misconstrued that post as a personal attack.
I'm not sure I approve of this removal of agency, telling users that they are unable to control their own feelings. The approach is to censor anything that could potentially offend. And that post wasn't even offensive. It was the definition of innocuous banter.
Are we not allowed to be humorous in threads, if only to prevent the thread from being exceedingly intense and continuously morose? A lot of us are from Commonwealth countries, where we use humour to deal with borderline topics, to lighten the mood and put things in perspective! I could easily argue that this could be "culturally insensitive", if I so desired. But that's also a bunch of nonsense.
In any group that is born of a democratic society, those in charge must always have their decisions scrutinized and torn apart, with the expectation that those decisionmakers will justify themselves. That's all there is to this.
Apparently, this deserved a warning. Not just a "Hey don't do that again," a full-up warning. The post was not attacking any individual in particular, or even anyone in general for that matter. It was an amusing play on words. Sure, it might have been off-topic, but at most, people would have just read it, chortled, and carried on with the thread. It would really be scraping the barrel if someone somehow misconstrued that post as a personal attack.
I'm not sure I approve of this removal of agency, telling users that they are unable to control their own feelings. The approach is to censor anything that could potentially offend. And that post wasn't even offensive. It was the definition of innocuous banter.
Are we not allowed to be humorous in threads, if only to prevent the thread from being exceedingly intense and continuously morose? A lot of us are from Commonwealth countries, where we use humour to deal with borderline topics, to lighten the mood and put things in perspective! I could easily argue that this could be "culturally insensitive", if I so desired. But that's also a bunch of nonsense.
In any group that is born of a democratic society, those in charge must always have their decisions scrutinized and torn apart, with the expectation that those decisionmakers will justify themselves. That's all there is to this.