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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: jlallen who wrote (44399)2/20/2002 4:53:52 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
You have hit a key point. What I got suspended for was precisely that -- in a post to another poster, I commented on things that Poet had said which were in no way personal to her. Somebody brought that to Jeff's attention, and he thought it violated the "to or about" limitation, so he suspended me.

That is precisely why I went through the whole rigamarole with SI -- because I wasn't willing to be locked out of commenting on non-personal issues raised by another poster on SI as long as the comment didn't violate the TOU.

If your proposal had been interpreted the same way Jeff interpreted the "to or about" provision, that would be the case.

Now you agree that that would not be a reasonable restriction, but others seeing the language you proposed might have a different interpretation, and we would get into a 500-post bicker about whether a given post did or did not violate whatever agreement was or was not made.

I'm not interested in any of that, frankly.

If you are, fine for you. But I'm not.
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