Hozzászólások - manunkind

wshew, glad i don't see any of mine here (yet).

in the question about which Apollo mission was aborted, "return" is incorrectly spelled with an 'e' on the end.

for the question, "Who is the main character in TV series Spin city?" michael j. fox is listed as correct, but he is the main actor not the main character.

nevermind. i'm wrong.

sure, i agree that many people are oversensitive.
i also believe that many people are inconsiderate.

i get that misinterpretation of my username quite a bit from those who slept through high school english. it comes from a well-known poem - and it's mankind that is unkind, as this forum has proven again and again. whether or not i am unkind, i leave for each of you to decide.

just a thought - perhaps we shouldn't take our advice from an ex-con, curse despite the game's rules, and ignore others' sensitivity.

i don't know what forum technology is available, but it seems to me that with respect to privacy, complaints about players should be automatically hidden for only the mods to read. the open debate in this thread hasn't exactly been productive.

but the world isn't made up of just one language. the word is offensive unless you go to extraordinary measures to try to justify that it's not. most people seeing it will understand it by its common spanish meaning, which is offensive. this debate is silly. there is so much grey area to cover, we waste time on this straighforward issue.

i don't imagine the makers of this game want the spanish f-bomb in a player's name even if it's not directed at someone.

as Sbart points out, the logic that anything not in english cannot be offense is terribly flawed. Spanish is far from a dead language, and the standard interpretation is far from ambiguous.

i'm finding it difficult to believe that he has taken this position for any reason other than being adversarial.

so, if i respond to you with some namecalling right now ...in mandarin ...that'd be ok with you and fine for the community?

*scratches head* petel87, why on earth would you take that position? just because offensive language is more difficult to decipher for some doesn't make it ok.

perhaps the evaluator preferred a different spelling of the city name: Shàngdū.
(newton-john should be hypenated.)

i wish i could offer an explanation, but i'm speculating just as you are.

eukar, your question was not evaluated as "totally wrong." it was evaluated as "ambiguous or wrong." if it's not wrong, then it must be ambiguous. how can you remove the ambiguity and make it more clear?

um, Viridel, that was Thucydides who made the claim about robin hood being the most famous outlaw, not me. i agree with the evaluator and with you that it's ambiguous. how about billy the kid, jesse james, al capone, blackbeard, ted bundy or osama bin laden? ...all outlaws. if you want to get technical, wouldn't Jesus qualify? certainly to the Romans. and if you want to get fictional (as robin hood may well be), my vote is for boba fett!

Boar, you could have made your point far less acrimoniously.

why did it take a month to announce the ban? hadn't the admins already seen the logs in order to make the suspension?

it's also possible that your use of initials instead of full names creates some ambiguity. just taking guesses here.