Creative Speculation
Related: About this forumIs there any conspiracy theory post that can be called "nuts" without being locked?
First off, I am not calling any theory nuts. This is just a "What if".
This is a valid question. If someone said Obama is a Space Alien or that Obama is a real robot would it be OK to say "You are nuts!"
Isn't there a level of crazy theory that can be called "nuts" and be 100% valid?
What about Holocaust deniers? Would insulting them be OK? I would hope so. What about Obama birthers? Ok to call them idiots?
This group is different than groups where we debate if Obama is liberal enough. Or debate how we should handle Abortion or the Death Penalty.
I would like to hear feedback from the moderators of this forum on this question.
maddezmom
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The other items you mentioned are governed by juries or admin in accordance with community standards and TOS. If you call someone nuts and it's alerted, it goes to the jury. You take your chances. If you call someone's theory nuts, it goes to the jury and if you alert on it yourself and hit the TOS it goes to jury and the MIR team if it's hidden by a jury and if not admin gets it.
antitsa
(116 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,894 posts)Any of what you have asked about would be a ToS violation, alert it as such and leave it at that. I see no reason to be posting insults in this Group under any circumstances.