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Comment author: wedrifid 05 January 2012 09:20:53PM *  6 points [-]

The cereal thing is comically mild. The impulse to wish bad things on others is a pretty strong one and I think it's moderated by having an outlet to acknowledge that it's silly in this or maybe some other way

Calling nyan a jerk in that context wasn't ok with me and nor was any joke about wanting harm to come upon him. It was unjustified and inappropriate.

  • I'd rather people publicly wish me to run out of milk than privately wish me dead.

I don't much care what MixedNuts wants to happen to nyan. The quoted combination of words constitutes a status transaction of a kind I would see discouraged. Particularly given that we don't allow reciprocal personal banter of the kind this sort insult demands. If, for example, nyan responded with a pun on a keyword and a reference to Mixed's sister we wouldn't allow it. When insults cannot be returned in kind the buck stops with the first personal insult. That is, Mixed's.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 05 January 2012 10:14:01PM 3 points [-]

When insults cannot be returned in kind the buck stops with the first personal insult.

This is admirably compelling.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2012 09:54:13PM 1 point [-]

Calling nyan a jerk in that context wasn't ok with me and nor was any joke about wanting harm to come upon him. It was unjustified and inappropriate.

Upvoted.

I am happy that someone other than me gets upset when they see these "jokes" on here.

(I also downvoted the "jerk" comment)

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2012 10:07:49PM 0 points [-]

wanting harm to come upon him

[emphasis mine]. You assume that nyan is male. Where did "he" say that? nyan explicitly claims to be a "genderless internet being" in the introductions thread.

Last LW survey came out with 95% male, IIRC. 95% sure of something is quite strong. nyan called Aspiring_Knitter a troll on much less solid evidence. Also, you come from the unfortunate position of not having workable genderless pronouns.

I'll allow it.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 January 2012 11:03:31PM *  1 point [-]

[emphasis mine]. You assume that nyan is male. Where did "he" say that? nyan explicitly claims to be a "genderless internet being" in the introductions thread.

That's fair. I used male because you sounded more like a male - and still do. If you are a genderless internet being then I will henceforth refer to you as an 'it'. If you were a genderless human I would use the letter 'v' followed by whatever letters seem to fit the context.