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NB
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Here is what I said in context and in full:

FabianFnas: "Insults is always annoying, and creeps under my skin. As a moderator I would be very hard on those using insults as a method to win a discussion. Intellectual low, and very contagious too."

Nick Bourbaki: "I say no to moderators intervening. I don't want moderators deciding what I see and don't see. I don't want moderators second guessing what I might like or dislike. I don't want moderators setting a benchmark for acceptable and unacceptable insults on my behalf. I find the insults people dish out interesting and revealing. I don't claim any right-to-not-be-offended, and I certainly think any such right trumping the right to express oneself freely would be a terrible state of affairs."

I would welcome your opinions about freedom of speech and moderation in a forum like this. What stance do you take?

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I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on freedom of expression, on any right 'not to be not offended' there may arguably be, and on forum moderation, regardless of what I may or may not have argued in the past.

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I have no idea what kind of "legal disputes" you might be seriously referring to. And I have come nowhere near even remotely talking about any "dispute [that] would be adjudicated in the courts". You are the first person [I think] to use such words as "legal", "legal dispute", "legal right" and 'adjudicated in the courts" on this entire thread. Quite frankly, I'm not sure what on earth you think you are really on about.

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Originally posted by Nick Bourbaki
I would add, Leave Clan Forum type messaging on the Clan Forum.
An illustration,and a hypothetical one at that:

Clan Forum Etiquette: divegeester to robbie carrobie "WTF! You are like some bleeding 15 year old with hormones pinging around all over the place... when in fact, you are a ruddy grown man in your 40s, FFS!!!"

Spirituality Forum Etiquette: divegeester to Nick Bouraki "For those who assume robbie carrobie is a 15 year old with hormones pinging around all over the place, he is in fact ~ or so I am led to believe ~ a man in his 40s."

I think such subtle variations in etiquette from Forum to Forum are to be embraced.
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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
yes your thread sucks, that's all I have to say.
Are you kidding?! This is one of the best threads in Spirituality for a long time.

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I don't see how a yes-or-no tick box on a web page is going to prevent or deter these "many people" [that you envisage] who "would be free to write as many insults, lies, and racist or sexist slurs as imaginable". What's stopping them from writing "as many insults, lies, and racist or sexist slurs as imaginable" as things stand? What has stopped me from writing "as many insults, lies, and racist or sexist slurs as imaginable" thus far?

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Its bad enough that you can hardly think for yourself ...
Pure gold.

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The post that was quoted here has been removed
You wrote "Nick Bourbaki" 14 times in that post.

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Tell that to all the spellchecker? What if I want to speak Ebonics!

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
Are you kidding?! This is one of the best threads in Spirituality for a long time.
meh you could be right, ok then i change my statement to the thread is awesome but divesgeester still sucks.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
meh you could be right, ok then i change my statement to the thread is awesome but divesgeester still sucks.
I think this is one thread that the author wishes he maybe didn't start?
One would think it could be a regret by him and maybe learn from it?
Im sure it will be safe to say it won't happen.....

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Originally posted by divegeester
You wrote "Nick Bourbaki" 14 times in that post.
Thank God (hah! eat your heart out theists!) for the "Find All" feature. 😀

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Originally posted by galveston75
I think this is one thread that the author wishes he maybe didn't start?
One would think it could be a regret by him and maybe learn from it?
Im sure it will be safe to say it won't happen.....
he is uninterested, he is saved, he doesn't need to do anything.

'this means everlasting life their taking in knowledge of you and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ' John 17:3

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Originally posted by galveston75
I think this is one thread that the author wishes he maybe didn't start?
One would think it could be a regret by him and maybe learn from it?
Im sure it will be safe to say it won't happen.....
Why would I wish I didn't start this thread?

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
he is uninterested, he is saved, he doesn't need to do anything.

'this means everlasting life their taking in knowledge of you and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ' John 17:3
Good point but one they so conveniently miss.

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