Posted by Sigismund on May 11, 2008, at 19:40:44
In reply to Lou's reply to Sigismund-ranel » Sigismund, posted by Lou Pilder on May 1, 2008, at 19:43:22
In the time I've been around the civility rules have changed in response to the situation here. I feel reasonably sure that much of that is an intuitive response to the situation on the boards. Therefore there may be no rationale or criteria that fit well over time. Even at a given time the rationale and criteria may be less than transparent. But if you ask those in authority to give rationale and criteria you back them into a corner of having to pretend there is more logic to it than there actually is. Then they have to respond with a ruling that is defensible and therefore not neccessarily the best ruling you might be able to get.
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