Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-24011918-20131215211402

The Bitter Cold wrote: You still aren't making any sense. I don't mean to set up a strawman, but you seem to be suggesting that it's A-okay if respectable members use the word "retard," but we should crucify all newbies who utter the word. If I thought it was okay to call somebody a retard, I wouldn't have made this thread. C'mon Bitter, you have common sense, use it.

You still are missing my point. Let me try and give an example, if Nick came in and say he met some gay guys at school, we know him well enough to know he meant homosexual. So we'd be more at ease. (Well, most of us, anyways.) But if a new user came in and said the same thing, we'd most likely attack because we don't have a good judge of his or her character (with says bad things about this place). I'm saying if it were all like older members who knew each other like most of us know Nick, we could relax a bit about that rule, although used in the wrong context, i.e. an insult, it would be as severe a consequence (for both older and newer members).

Do you get what I mean now?