"You said, and I quote:
'You sound EXACTLY like a CERTAIN SERPENT in a garden.'"
Later, you pinged the RM saying -
Making things personal, like claiming I am exactly like Satan would be against the rules. But you knew that, right?
Why not take a week off to get your story straight.
At no time did I say you were "exactly like Satan."
RM - Narses appears to be provoking others in an attempt to get them banned. Is it "over the line" for me to point out behavior?
Narses - Give it a rest. Anyone can go back and read our posts and come to the same conclusion. It's embarassing!
Rides_A_Red_Horse, your post 433 contains the accusation at the root of this outrage.
narses, the statement was expressing her mind ("you sound exactly like...") it was not reading yours.
Nevertheless, it was making the thread "about" another Freeper personally and was therefore a form of "making it personal." And this entire sidebar continues in that error keeping the discussion away from the issues and centered instead on claims of indignation.
Discuss the ISSUES all you want, but do not make it personal. Discuss the MESSAGE, not the messenger. No ad hominems.
Also complaints about groups of believers are not "making it personal." For instance, "Baptists are heretics" is not making it personal whereas "You are a heretic" is making it personal.
That said, repeated childish insults and allusions (e.g. Godwin's law comparisons) even when addressed to a group of believers (e.g. they are mouth breathers) - serve no purpose other than to incite flame wars. Any such post may be pulled for trouble-making.