The guidelines state:
Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree
You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:
- Name-calling
- Ad hominem attacks
- Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
- Knee-jerk contradiction
Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.
Your Participation Counts
I followed these guidelines, and defended a multi-pronged verbal attack on my country,
by requesting a bit of reverence towards the USA…for past performance
and I got censored for it.
It was not a knee jerk reaction.
It directly related to the content
it was not an Ad hominem attack
( Ad hominem (Latin for ‘to the person’), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a term
that refers to several types of arguments, most of which are fallacious.Typically this term
refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some
other attribute of the person making an argument rather than attacking the substance of
the argument itself.)
And I avoided name calling.
If following the guidelines, but irritating a moderator, by doing so is the way this forum is run, then
I no longer wish to be associated with this kind of small mindedness.
unsubscribe me!