Posted by Lou Pilder on October 22, 2004, at 14:16:44
Dr. Hsiung,
I am requesting that you make a determination as to the following being acceptable or not in relation to the guidlines of the forum.
I felt accused and put down by the following in NikkiT2's post 405913, not the post that I had requested the determination of, when I read it, for my request for a determination is only for you to make a determination, and I feel accused by the statement having the possible implication that my request for a determination being an unsubstantiated accusation, for I have made a request for a determination so that there would not be an accusation. The reason as follows.
The post of mine that the poster is citing writes;
[Dr. Hsiung,
I am requesting a determination as to if the following is acceptable in relation to the guidlines of the forum.]
It is not my authority to make a determination as to if a post is acceptable here, for I believe that it is your determination as to if a post is acceptable under the guidlines of the forum or not.
The request by me for you to make a determination as if the post is acceptable here, I feel has not been answered by you to me as to either it is or it isn't acceptable, for my request was for [... a determination as to if the following is acceptable in relation to the guidlines of the forum...]. I do not think that not answereing at all is to mean that the post is acceptable. There are many other reasons that the post could have went unanswerd. There was another post of mine that also went unanswered and you answered it at a later time. Dinah commented in some way that I thought that she was saying that you were taking time to consider your answer and I feel that you could be taking your time to consider your determination to the post in question here also.
If by you not saying yes or no to my request means that the post is acceptable, then that means, if you are saying that the post is acceptable by not responding either yes or no, that the phrase, [...and threatening to force to (expletive) his (expletive)...]is acceptable language here in a similar context. That is one determination that I thought needed to be made and if you are making the determination for that to be acceptable by not responding to my request for a determination, then I will have to accept that in future posts that langusge could be incorperated in a post without restraint in a similar context, and if this is so, could you write in your FAQ under [...offensive language...] by using the example in question here that one could write that under those circumststances to be acceptable? I really thought that the word(s) themselves were considered by you to be offensive words to be plainly visible, not needing to be pointed out to you, like the type that have been in the past restrained and posters were evicted for. I remember many posts about the use of a word similar in relation to human anatomy that was considerd by you to be an offensive word.
Lou Pilder
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20041012/msgs/405913.html
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:405966
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