PnR Decorum and suspensions

[Belsnickel]

(07-07-2017, 10:00 PM)Dill Wrote: My two cents, hoping I understood your point, Bels.

I agree with your take on the concept of "ignorance."  And people who don't know a subject may take great umbrage if, however obliquely, your response to a post reveals their lack of knowledge.

If I understand Zona, however, the mods aren't out to create "safe spaces" for sensitive posters. Rather, they don't want us to call one another "ignorant" and otherwise engage in personal invective.  When that happens, the term is not descriptive but a species of name calling and destroys dialogue. They may also look askance at designating groups with that term, especially if the poster knows that someone he is addressing belongs to that group. E.g., "Democrats and Bengals fans are ignorant."

If someone posted an erroneous account of Quangos, and you could not respectfully correct it via explanation and supporting links for fear the poster might think you "condescending," then meaningful discussion of politics and religion would not be possible. That would concede the field to "ignorance."  I doubt the mods want that. 
 

(07-08-2017, 12:25 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: The problem is not being ignorant. I am ignorant of many things in life. The problem is stating that someone else is ignorant in order to denigrate and degrade them. 

I get it, I just wanted to make sure that was out there because there are plenty of times where I may remark on someone's lack of understanding, but it isn't something that is intended to be a degrading remark. I know it can come across as such and be seen as personal, but this is why I often just don't engage in many conversations with certain posters or stop at a point where their ignorance is showing, so I don't go down that road. And I hold back because I don't know how the other poster, or the mods, will generally take it.