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I suspect that is NOT the case, but at no point has it been said “this is not an appropriate use of the anti-harassment policy” and as such paints hippybear as having a legitimate claim against phunniemee.

I am not 100% sure that there not is a legitimate claim of some sort. Phunniemee had poked hippybear about the "class genocide" MeTa in several separate threads over the course of the past few months. I can see that hippybear clearly… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Manwich Horror at 6:12 PM on June 6, 2024

Are you talking about this literally one single comment in a thread hippybear wasn't even participating in?

I mean please if there are any other times tell me, I genuinely don't remember.

I had thought there were. I must be misremembering someone else's comment about it. I apologize. That does make hippybear's reaction much more unreasonable.
posted to MetaTalk by The Manwich Horror at 6:25 PM on June 6, 2024

lol christ

Oh damn it. I am very sorry, you weren't the one who made the comment, you were the one who explained the joke someone else made about it. And I just crossed it up in my old man brain. I am an idiot.

I have been feeling bad for the past few days not bringing it up, because while hippybear and I haven't gotten long on several occasions and I agree that the billionaire submarine MeTa was wrongheaded… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Manwich Horror at 6:40 PM on June 6, 2024

Is "please no name calling" a big ask?

The Drumpf joke was stupid when Oliver made it. No moral judgment, it was just a lame joke. It's the "let's go Brandon" of liberals.

The use of "Drumpf" as a derogative for Trump does upset a lot of people on a lot of axes, from people seeing it as anti-immigrant, or evoking other incidences of cultural erasure. And of course, it is a kind of deadnaming.

I don't care about civility to Trump. I do care about other members of… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Manwich Horror at 1:57 PM on June 3, 2024

Obviously I have zero insight to moderator decisions, but my impression was that the comment wasn't deleted for calling X "Twitter", but for making a joke about "deadnaming" the site.
posted to MetaTalk by The Manwich Horror at 11:42 AM on June 4, 2024

Are you really so fragile that you lose your shit over the mere suggestion of hey could we be more civil in our tone and not resort to calling Trump petty names?

I don't think that is the issue people are being upset by, right now.
posted to MetaTalk by The Manwich Horror at 7:34 PM on June 4, 2024

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posted to MetaTalk by The Manwich Horror at 3:57 AM on February 10, 2024