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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by mcguire on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:59PM (#18276291)
Please do not take a harsh tone towards other participants, and especially don't make personal attacks against them. Go out of your way to show that you are criticizing a statement, not a person.

Please avoid statements about the presumed typical desires, capabilities or actions of some demographic group. They can offend people in that group, and they are always off-topic in GNU Project discussions.

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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by ThrowawayR2 on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:32PM (#18276582)
No personal attacks were made; the posting individual was not even mentioned. Arguing against an opposing idea is permitted.

No demographic groups were mentioned. Academics are not a demographic group, save possibly in the most academic possible interpretation of the word, and are certainly not a protected demographic group.

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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by mcguire on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:50PM (#18277782)
Absolutely! The "insipid attitude" was never attributed to any person at all and no one supports "authoritarian" behavior.
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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:12PM (#18285891)
Sarcasm only works when it has a valid point to make.

The "insipid attitude" and "authoritarian behavior" was attributed to a (non-protected) group. Now, it might be that the individual that the poster was replying to is an exemplar of that group but is the beliefs and behavior of the group as a whole that is being challenged, not the individual.

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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by hueving on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:43PM (#18277152)
A person wasn't even mentioned ...
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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by s73v3r_ on Monday October 22, 2018 @06:35PM (#18279174)
They quoted the parent, and referred to what they said as being an "insipid attitude". To me, that's close enough as makes no difference.
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Re:Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines by ryanobjc on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:38PM (#18277666)
indirectly implied via the reference to the poster's attitude.
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