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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by dang on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:18AM (#17141293)
It's a trope of getting personal on the internet to say "you are the kind of person who". Both aspects are bad, not just the personalness but also the tropiness, because by definition it repeats very easily. It's important to nip that in the bud. And it's not like it's necessary to make any substantive point.
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Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kin... by mmt on Thursday May 24, 2018 @01:54AM (#17141427)
But what is getting personal? Other than the use of the word "person", there is no actual reference to anyone's person.

The personal aspect would be bad, except it doesn't exist.

The tropiness of the phrase I'll take your word for, as I don't frequent any other online discussion sites. It certainly doesn't add to the discussion.

Is a phrase that is extraneous, currently popular/cliche, and merely possibly offensive because it's typically used ad-hominem elsewhere, really cause for threatening to ban a user?

I think you're over-reacting.

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