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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2996204" data-attributes="member: 158">Spirit is more important than the letter to us; it's difficult enough trying to decide if a community of thousands of daily active members are being civil without a solid-line acid test, much less enforcing a letter of the law, which is where mod judgment calls come in. I don't know if a mod has ever said it's perfectly OK to say, &quot;act like a (child, fool, Burger King)&quot; instead of to BE that thing, but I'd find it more likely if they saw a particular remark and didn't comment on it (because it wasn't very strong in context, or because it was five pages back and the heat of the moment had passed by hours or days, etc.) rather than saying, &quot;ONE's OK, the other's not.&quot;However, I will say that in grammar at high school, I did learn that in writing and speech, it's not considered incorrect to say someone behaved &quot;-ishly&quot; (foolishly, childishly, etc.) as opposed to saying they were &quot;like a fool,&quot; or &quot;were a fool.&quot; The latter is a lot stronger language than the former.In final analysis, the spirit is more important, but spirit sometimes gets lost as the community gets larger, leading to mod judgment calls. Letter of the law, however, is more problematic to mods, or to me at least; personally I'm not about to tear my hear out over literal interpreations over something I'm not gettin' paid for, and am doing out of love for the community. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I know that personally, I'll &quot;smack down&quot; more readily over stuff like &quot;you're a fool,&quot; or &quot;you're stupid&quot; than stuff like &quot;I find that statement a bit silly&quot; or &quot;that's a foolish premise.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 2996204, member: 158"] Spirit is more important than the letter to us; it's difficult enough trying to decide if a community of thousands of daily active members are being civil without a solid-line acid test, much less enforcing a letter of the law, which is where mod judgment calls come in. I don't know if a mod has ever said it's perfectly OK to say, "act like a (child, fool, Burger King)" instead of to BE that thing, but I'd find it more likely if they saw a particular remark and didn't comment on it (because it wasn't very strong in context, or because it was five pages back and the heat of the moment had passed by hours or days, etc.) rather than saying, "ONE's OK, the other's not." However, I will say that in grammar at high school, I did learn that in writing and speech, it's not considered incorrect to say someone behaved "-ishly" (foolishly, childishly, etc.) as opposed to saying they were "like a fool," or "were a fool." The latter is a lot stronger language than the former. In final analysis, the spirit is more important, but spirit sometimes gets lost as the community gets larger, leading to mod judgment calls. Letter of the law, however, is more problematic to mods, or to me at least; personally I'm not about to tear my hear out over literal interpreations over something I'm not gettin' paid for, and am doing out of love for the community. ;) I know that personally, I'll "smack down" more readily over stuff like "you're a fool," or "you're stupid" than stuff like "I find that statement a bit silly" or "that's a foolish premise." [/QUOTE]

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