Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year

Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by dang on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:40PM (#14133303)

'Intellectually dishonest' is still name-calling in the sense of being a generic pejorative that adds no information. So it still breaks that guideline. As shortimer pointed out, it isn't about personal attacks. Personal attacks are certainly not ok here, but other things are not ok too.

The guideline contains practical advice for how to edit the name-calling out of these things: simply shorten them. In this case, "Comparing X to Y is intellectually dishonest [or asinine]" can be shortened to "X is not Y".

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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by msandford on Monday April 17, 2017 @03:01PM (#14133496)

Ah, that makes much more sense then! Thanks for the clarification.

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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by Baeocystin on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:45PM (#14133348)

Is there a rate limit on editing? I can no longer change my post, but I will keep this in mind.

[edit] - Appreciated.

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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by dang on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:47PM (#14133361)

There is (2 hours) but I'll turn it off that post above.

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