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No worries. (Y)

Occasional anything is generally fine here. And abbreviations like btw etc. are not a problem. But writing whole posts without capitalization in old-f...

Hm, maybe. Does Mike (or whatever your name is) matter Han? Ok, I need to stop now. :B

Ah well, if you're not the trouble-making common folk supporter we thought you were, you can join @"Agustino" and I in making sure they're kept in the...

See if we all did that we might find the answer to @"ArguingWAristotleTiff"'s question: "Where is the love? (L) (L) (L)"

That may be too harsh...

Who gets the hemlock, Posty?

Now how should we punish @"Hanover" for such a suggestion?

Indeed, I agree we shouldn't give the common folk more power here. They can't be trusted. :-* ;)

Ok, so you might support giving general members more say, right? Anyway, surely you can dig up something worse. Give us some meat to chew on.

Sounds like something you might suggest to be honest as you don't trust the mod team that much.

I doubt this is going anywhere but do as you will. Just one point, I think you've misinterpreted the term "rank and file". It's a phrase that simply m...

I interpret that in the obvious way as matters (in terms of having the power to do anything about it i.e. is on the moderating team) not matters (is o...

Which is @"jamalrob". Not sure the title of monarch is quite grand enough for him though. ;)

Hmm, a surreptious implementation of a policy change without any formal announcement. *Strokes beard* Better PM me and we can discuss this in private....

OK, but there's no evidence of support for the idea of formalizing inequality in the way you seem to be suggesting. If you are now just talking about ...

This touches on what I said earlier that context is taken into consideration. So a newbie who comes here and does nothing but flame for their first fe...

College rejects are welcome here by the way. ;)

Ah, ok. Fair enough. Apologies @"Buxtebuddha" on that one. At most, this is an academic-leaning forum (according to my interpretation anyway): it's mo...

No, nor a separate unmodded area as far as I know.

Nowhere in the guidelines does it say this is an "academic forum". That's quite deliberate. I remember because I drafted them. The relevant line is: "...

In the case of refusal to be moderated, a poster essentially gives us a binary choice between them and the rules. And we are always going to choose th...

Well, I hope one day you get to run a forum, so you can discover the pleasures of trying to maintain a high standard of conversation, a good quality o...

And that, conspiracy theories notwithstanding, is because we are more interested in maintaining the integrity of the site as a whole than the interest...

Of course, we're responsible for the rules. And that's a matter of credit as far as I'm concerned. And not one of us disagreed with the ban.

Alright, I'll try again because maybe you really don't understand. You won't be banned for making mistakes in grammar or punctuation. You will be bann...

Yes, but for him I doubt it would be that simple. He's not a brainless rebel. I imagine more a calculated exit. Moving on to something else maybe. Who...

Exactly. And neither did I really but he was one of the most knowledgeable posters here and one of the best writers when he wanted to be. His behavior...

Yes, he told me that in future rather than making posters follow the same rules, just let some posters do whatever they want and then all the other po...

Sorry, no sixth time for you.

Well, that just leaves me and Dr. Evil to plot our next banning.

:D

Your English is great and if you had a problem with it and we asked you politely to deal with that, I suspect you wouldn't give us the finger.

Here's another thing I think. You're not actually as paranoid as you make yourself out to be. And at some point you'll realize the idea that we would ...

"Posts should display an acceptable level of English with regard to grammar, punctuation and layout." That covers text speak under punctuation at leas...

You are the one asking us to selectively apply them. We won't. They apply to everyone.

Fifth time.

Why on earth would we target TGW above anyone else? I think if he is reading this now, even he would be laughing.

i hpe its clear now ppl.

Fourth time now.

Who are those "lots of people" writing consistently in text speak? Name them.

I thought TGW was one of the best posters here in terms of philosophical knowledge. So, in a sense he was a special snowflake. But not in a way that w...

No, you're being silly. So, I think this is about the third time: If any poster is asked to follow any guideline and flat out refuses and continues to...

Just read my posts.

As I said, we are not going to make a separate set of guidelines for every poster. No special cookies. If we did that, we would be attacked with even ...

Nobody's going to get banned for writing a few badly written messages from their phone. What will get you banned is if you're politely asked to follow...

Leaving us no choice except either to invent a new set of rules for him or treat him the same as everyone else. Which he knew presumably.

Are you being deliberately idiotic? Let me try again:

I liked TGW even though he was eminently unlikeable. But we're not going to have a separate set of rules for every poster. It is what it is.