“You are welcome to suck rocks or chase ducks, if you wish.”
Does this pass the “no personal attack” test? If not, please chide others here as I have been chided, :)
LOL.
WAIL, WHINE . . .
I gather you never made it to the taxidermist.
Like pornography, the moderators know a "personal attack" when they see it.
The guideline concerning "making it personal" applies only to the Religion Forum. Attributing motives and other forms of mind reading are "making it personal." However, for something to be "making it personal" it must be addressed to another poster, personally.
For instance, if I said "Baptists believe" that would not be making it personal. But if I said "You believe" that would be making it personal.
If I said "Evidently, you are ignorant" that would not be making it personal because it would be expressing my mind, not reading yours. But if I said "You are ignorant" that would be making it personal.
And if I said "Do you think" that would not be making it personal because I am asking, not mind reading. But if I said "You think" that would be making it personal.
However, making the thread "about" individual Freepers is also a form of "making it personal." It causes the discussion to move away from the issues into ad hominines and flame wars ignite. It disturbs the forum for everyone else.
The following remark by Quix is not a personal attack. And it is not mind reading. It is however making the thread "about" another Freeper and is therefore "making it personal."