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To: Resettozero
From the Religion Forum guidelines:

Forms of "making it personal" include mind reading, attributing motive, accusing another Freeper of telling a lie (because it attributes motive, the intent to deceive) - making the thread "about" individual Freeper(s), following a Freeper from thread to thread and badgering a Freeper over-and-again with the same question.

The words "prevarication" "dishonesty" "slander" "deceit" "calumny" and "subterfuge" are synonymous with "lie" because they entail intent.

Words such as "false" "error" "wrong" "inaccurate" "misstatement" do not attribute motive and are not "making it personal."

Other words push the envelope of motive but are not synonymous with "lie" for purposes of modding the RF. However, they can be "making it personal" if applied to another Freeper, personally, in such a way the discussion becomes "about" the individual Freeper instead of the issues. Those words include "misrepresentation" "detraction" "disinformation" "distortion" "hyperbole" and "doublespeak."


3,060 posted on 10/22/2014 11:50:58 AM PDT by Religion Moderator
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To: Religion Moderator

Thank you. I apologize for intimating that a poster’s misrepresentation that a post I had made previously to another FReeper (#749)but was attributed and replied to (”You’re welcome”) as if from the first poster...was lying. I don’t know what it was then.

It’s always good to get a mini-refresher course in FR Religion forum rules that may need revision.


3,063 posted on 10/22/2014 12:06:33 PM PDT by Resettozero
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