Re: Jokes, ad-hominem attacks, and sensitivity

So, where should we draw the line?

No one has the right never to be offended on this site.

However, repeatedly mocking someone (say, Re^5: RFC: Acme::BottomsUp) who's said "Hey, that offended me!" is plain rude.

Agree or disagree, I don't care, but at least pretend you can be a civil human being. When you must offend someone else, do it over something substantive that has some degree of actual mattering with regard to the site subject.

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Re^2: Jokes, ad-hominem attacks, and sensitivity by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Aug 22, 2006 at 13:33 UTC
That is an excellent point. There really is a line between discussing/debating the appropriateness of a node and ad-hominem. Personally, I feel DrHyde's response to ptum's original complaint very closely tread the line to an ad-hominem attack, especially in light of the rather calm and articulate objection by ptum. More generally, I would tend to agree that simple decorum should keep someone from insulting another who has just calmly objected to one's own comments. I'm curious, would you consider such rude behavior worthy of more than just a downvote? <–radiant.matrix–> A collection of thoughts and links from the minds of geeks The Code that can be seen is not the true Code I haven't found a problem yet that can't be solved by a well-placed trebuchet	[reply]

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Re^2: Jokes, ad-hominem attacks, and sensitivity
by radiantmatrix (Parson) on Aug 22, 2006 at 13:33 UTC

That is an excellent point. There really is a line between discussing/debating the appropriateness of a node and ad-hominem. Personally, I feel DrHyde's response to ptum's original complaint very closely tread the line to an ad-hominem attack, especially in light of the rather calm and articulate objection by ptum.

More generally, I would tend to agree that simple decorum should keep someone from insulting another who has just calmly objected to one's own comments. I'm curious, would you consider such rude behavior worthy of more than just a downvote?

<–radiant.matrix–>
A collection of thoughts and links from the minds of geeks
The Code that can be seen is not the true Code
I haven't found a problem yet that can't be solved by a well-placed trebuchet

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