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I thought she was recommending niceness to LWers and people from "communities similar to ours" no matter where we are.
My own spotless reputation aside, I've noticed that discussion forums where everyone tries to be "nice" tend to degenerate into places where all criticism has to be phrased meekly and thus forthright criticism becomes impossible.
Sometimes, a spade has to be called a spade, and a moron has to be called a moron.
These rules are not of a kind. In the former case, you have something that's indisputably a (shovel|playing card suit) and call it by its name. In the latter case, you likely don't have very solid grounds for identifying a person as a 'moron' (we're talking about Internet exchanges, right?) and the term isn't very well-defined in the first place.
If you're administering early 20th-century IQ tests then you have good reason to be calling people morons; otherwise, no.