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Alrighty then.

Fey meet Fnord

Fnord meet Fey

That's odd. In China it's considered a low-tier tea, so it's mostly made for export.

Hey ... waitaminute ... we went way off-topic and no one has called us out on it!

Is something wrong with the software, or should we start "bashing" each other just to get back on-topic?[/color]

Again, that isn’t remotely what I said. What I said was that I wish we could treat everyone with kindness. Unfortunately there are users here who rush to defend comments that could reasonably be construed as racist, while rushing to condemn anyone who makes post critical of racist sentiments. Some users have even engaged in emotional blackmail to attempt to get others to leave the site, and one or two have gone so far as to emotionally blackmail the moderators into banning users they dislike.

If you or any other individual isn’t engaging in the bullying or emotional blackmail then that’s fine. No problem with you. But I’m a moderator - my job is to stop people from bullying each other. Remaining silent was not an option. I had hoped to inspire some mutual soul-searching and maybe people would be nice to all of our black sheep, rather than just one of them.

I’ve said on several occasions - we have one user here who is a deliberate, knowing, ideological white supremacist (although I think he would call himself a “Eurosupremacist and believer in human biodiversity” or something like that). He hasn’t participated in this thread as far as I am aware. And as long as he doesn’t actually start making explicitly racist statements then he’s welcome to stay.

As I said - standing up for someone who made a clumsy remark is a good thing. But when some remarks are defended and others are used to bash and bully, that’s not acceptable. If you’re not doing that then great! But some people, and therefore the community as a whole, absolutely are, and that’s not acceptable.

The role of a moderator isn’t to be popular, it’s to stop people breaking the rules. When people start bullying an unpopular user then I can’t just shrug and say they deserved it. There are so many kind-hearted people here, but if someone isn’t in the cool kids clique then the kindness is cut off, and that’s really sad.

... Fnord would/you'd want a professional to make suggestions or something like that so I wasn't expecting much luck.

I am already a professional (technical-) writer, so any advice some self-declared "professional" might provide would likely be read, considered, and then summarily discarded.

Didn't you once tell me anyone acting as their own lawyer has a fool for a client? Seems applicable here.

It seems common on this forum to see an avatar and it reminds you of something else or a user name reminds you of something , I will always be a ferret due to this

And in this good humour I just wanted to share what I see when I look at your avatar Fnord

Going off on lighthearted tangents is going to help make the Future of WP better

I've always liked that people aren't anal ...