29 Personal Attacks. (soc.history.war.vietnam)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
29 Personal Attacks. (soc.history.war.vietnam)
Articles must be free of personal attacks on individuals in the readership
on the newsgroup. Since the exact readership of soc.history.war.vietnam is
unknown at any given time, this requirement may be extended, at the
discretion of the moderators, to include any personal attack. The
determination for this will be context sensitive. The public acts of public
figures are, of course, open to critique, but only these public acts. The
same is true of organizations which similarly are also open to a higher
level of critique. Posters should restrict their comments to the material
and the discourse surrounding the material. ANY COMMENTS OF A PERSONAL
NATURE REGARDING ANOTHER POSTERS INTENTIONS, MOTIVES, BELIEFS, ETC. SHALL
BE DEEMED A PERSONAL ATTACK, AND REJECTED. The moderating team reserves
the right to examine the body of a poster's submission in order to
determine if an implicit pattern of harassment exists, and to use this
determination as part of the criteria in evaluating submissions.
Characterizations of another individual's beliefs or views as "ridiculous",
"stupid", "lies" or any similar label may be deemed, depending upon the
context, not as a critique of the material but as personal attack, and
therefore rejected. Posters will restrict themselves to a rebuttal of the
material and issues raised in an article without including derogatory or
condescending insults.
The moderators may, at their discretion, remove a line or sentence of text
containing a personal attack if, in the judgement of the moderator, that
line would result in the posting being returned to the author, and that
there is sufficient value and timeliness in the posting that such a delay
might render the posting moot. Any poster may request that this not be
done, in which case any posting outside of the guidelines will be returned
for editing and resubmission.
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