[Hacksaw]

The "trial run" has failed - the posters are not yet ready for a "respectful dialog" category mostly because words are understood differently by different posters. In particular, whether a word offends is a very personal thing. On this thread, offense was taken at 249 by the word "Roman" being used with the word "Catholic" and yet no offense was taken by the target of the word "satanist" at 263.

IMO, you are cherrypicking again. You have let people get away with snide insults against Catholics (blasphemous, foundation of toothpicks, etc), yet chose to single out this one poster. Having 2 sets of rules will never work. People would do this on the old evolution threads - they would post a continuous stream of insults at a target, and when the target finally reacting, they would scamper off to the waiting moderator.

[Quix]

Boy ain't that the cat's meow. Incredible.

That's an empirical issue.

Would you like to help pay for 3 atheist communications professors to analyze the thread regarding which side did what you said first, most often and most intensely?

Actually, the RM was rather graciously lenient.

Evidently you missed the point about post 263--an RC labeling a Protty a satanist without the protty TAKING OFFENSE.

That's typical around here . . . while RC's take offense over

EDIFICE!

Now REALLY--which is more personally offensive in any logical sense--calling someone a SATANIST or calling their religious organization an EDIFICE?

I'll try and watch the 7/11 sales for "a grip" and "thicker skin." Maybe we can take up a collection and buy such in bulk for the small percentage of RC's hereon who fail to 'get it.'

Sigh.

[Religion Moderator]

I did cherry pick the example because it was a single Freeper who took offense at something others did not and then said something which often causes offense but did not - showing the difficulty involved with policing word usage. Offense is in the eye of the beholder.

On the other item, I would only be concerned if there were any major belief that didn't feel "picked on." As it is, they are all angry with me from time-to-time.