Personal Attacks And Abusive Language Will Not Be Tolerated

[AB Editor]

"We understand that debates get heated, but personal attacks and abusive language will not be tolerated"

Can we all calm down a bit please?

I've been written to several times about how abrasive and aggressive this section has become.

Several have pointed out that the language in particular has become childish and brutish, with name calling and hyperbole being especially annoying.

So let's calm down a bit. Let's stop calling people "traitors to britain" and "friends of jihad" or similarly rude things.

If you can't make your opinion felt without resorting to these personal attacks, then you'll likely be met with suspension, or banning.

All the best,

Ed

[gness]

And you can, of course, Talbot....report someone when you get him confused with Bob Geldof........... ;-)

[-Talbot-]

Eh?

[Peter Pedant]

// Regarding rhyming slang, just like any other understandable posts, one can always skip the reading of them.//

is there any duty to make sense on this thread - or will any sentence or phrase do ?

we skip the understandable posts and settle on the incomprehensible posts and whine endlessly about them ? Now there's a thing ! [ and AOG calls me the mad one ]

[murraymints]

peace be with you ! xx

[naomi24]

'Precious' petulance causes far more problems around here than the odd bit of name calling.

Incidentally, someone had a post in News removed this afternoon, presumably for interpreting for the rest of us TTT's rhyming slang because that's all he did. I, personally, appreciated the interpretation. In enabled me to make sense of TTT's post.

[naomi24]

*it* not in.

[keyplus90]

People behave in peculiar manners when they are hidden behind a few million pixels. Or perhaps I should say that a few people show their true colour only when they are hidden from human eyes.

[Jackdaw33]

If Keyplus had said that in English I might have understood.

[Mamyalynne]

I understood Keyplus to mean that the anonymity of the internet imbues some with an added sense of bravado they may not show if they were in physical conversation with others.

[hc4361]

That's how I understood it, mamya. Warriors at the keyboard, cowards face to face.

[Jackdaw33]

...and some folk complain about cockney rhyming slang!

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, I try wherever possible only to type what I would also say directly to someone - equally I bear in mind that all age groups read this site too.

I doubt I have a 100% clean record, I try my best though.

[Mamyalynne]

I think the old rhyming slang is a fascinating subject and indeed it deserves an article - Ed did ask for some to be submitted - by a true scholar of it.

Well suited to both History and Jokes topics.

[hc4361]

I also believe that it is too easy to forget who may be reading your posts.
It is best to think your grandma, your boss and that blerdy psycho up the road who has it in for you not only read your posts but know who you are

[Svejk]

I'm a lot politer to fools on here than I am in real life.

[hc4361]

Svejk, don't you think it is far easier to ignore posters here than people in real life? I have a neighbour who I really do not like but think it is better to say 'hello' in passing rather than cut him dead.

[Peter Pedant]

// If Keyplus had said that in English, I might have understood.//
I thought he had put it rather well

( a lot of people hit the 'wot wiv dat den?' button before they get to the end of a three line post )

hc I am in a similar position with a neighbour ( 'Good Afternoon') when in fact I mean 'drop dead will you? after she dobbed me into the police for trespass at midnight in her ..... garden. Luckily I cd. show I was at a conference in London, when they sort of finally caught up with me. Probably a cat/fox/tortoise.

[Jackdaw33]

Good job the old Polari is now obsolete or you would really struggle.

[Gromit]

// I think the real problem is that so many people take offence (to nothing or very little) //

This thread by an ABEditor, on behalf of the owners, is asking politely for people to behave better. Because they see some individuals putting other users off from using the site because of their 'tone'. Is it too much to ask everyone to behave civilly toward other users?