Are insults against friends/family members off limits?
 

Recently, this has come up in DC, but we've always set rules forum-wide rather than forum at a time. The entire place is so filled with personal attacks that I'm not sure any efforts could ever make conversation in there civil. But the question is, from a moderation standpoint, are personal attacks against family members over the line?

Depending on the answer to this question, we may add another bannable offense to the list. Poll to follow.

IMO, yes.

Oh, and you can assume that there would be some level of discretion on this. "Your mom goes to college" and other joking things like that will never be bannable as far as I'm concerned.

No. Because this is a place where people sometimes come to vent and sometimes it takes a " your Momma " comment to get a point across. RedRum

You should have made this a public poll, that way we could see how many of Tom and Kotter's mults voted.

Depending on the severity, yes it should. I think the mods here are good enough to know when a line has been crossed.

Maybe vailpass and frazod should be sent to a room to kiss and make up. Then this would go away for the time being.

I agree with that. We're really only talking about intentionally hurtful attacks against a family member, not casually joking.

Yes but the mod should determine the severity of the insult and the ban that goes with it.

If someone says "It looks like your wife could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch." That could be taken as both a compliment and an insult.

I'm torn.

This is a slippery slope.

You're going to end up asking mods to judge intent.

What if it is factual?

But my wife CAN suck the chrome off a trailor hitch, so if somebody says that to me, its just matter of factly! You're right

Someone has to make that judgment, it's the point of having mods.