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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I'm going to have to jump in here and back up Zelda.
She did not call you a troll. She said that when you called someone's use of the word liseuse silly, you would be trolling. I agree. It is also against forum rules. I've jumped on other people before on this issue.
You do not have a right to insult people and belittle their choice of vocabulary, nor to derail discussions on other topics over other people's choice of words.
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Insulting people is over the line for sure. But again, the whole point of this thread (as indicated by the "?" in the title is to debate the chances of the term catching on.
Saying it's a silly term from the perspective of English speakers is a valid reason for one to argue why it won't catch on. That's calling the term silly. Now if he's going around saying the people using it are silly, then fine you can say that's a personal attack I suppose. But I didn't see much of that from him.
It just seems the modding is pretty un-even on this site. There were much more blatant personal attacks that went barely dealt with in the Apple forum for quite a while. Apparently some action was finally taken, though I was shocked no one was banned for it. Guess I shouldn't be as I didn't even get ban when I asked for my account to be banned after getting a deserved suspension for insulting someone!
In short, the mods on this site need to gain some consistency and grow a pair and actually ban some people as the level of discourse on this site frankly stinks at times. Part of it's just the international make up I think, as I've never found a hugely international forum site that worked out well. Anyone know of a good American centered e-readrer forum site?