@Hypocrisy_Central Truth. What I particularly despise is users who insult others by respecting the rules. Flying under the radar. As far as I’m concerned there isn’t much of a difference between ’‘your answers are always ignorant and there is no purpose for a person such as you in our society’’ and ’‘you’re a stupid motherfucker, go kill yourself’’.
This is why I have a hard time with people who put politeness above everything because it seems many of them think they can be mean to others as long as they don’t say some swear word. Like, it’s okay to be an asshole if you’re polite about it. Wtf.
I’m all for freedom of speech of course, thing is if someone is allowed to insult my intelligence with nice pretty words and use these to hurt me, I should be able to call someone a stupid motherfucker. Unfortunately there is no real way to bend the rules of Fluther for this, and I’m glad we have them, but it pisses me off when someone can be so mean and toxic to a user, yet nothing will be done because technically, they broke no rule. But if I call someone a bitch, I will be warned or punished. It would appear that civility has nothing on intent, nor does it respect equality. Superficial pipe dream is what it is.
Didn’t answer the question much, just wanted to comment on what @Hypocrisy_Central said. And I’m sure he knows all too well what I’m talking about, because he’s victim to quite a bit of abuse on here.