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Hi,
Discussions decompose under heating, and I think what Alan said here
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should take the heat off all native speakers on this thread.
It's common sense more than anything. I certainly don't feel like deleting posts 'on a whim', and I'm sure that Torsten or MM or Alan operate along the same lines. Analogously, we don't delete posts when asked by a contributer just because he or she feels disparaged by a certain comment.
If we were to delete a comment such as
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we would have to delete half the comments of the poster who had to take a hit here.
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| #33 (permalink) Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:18 am according to work or appearance |
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| Analogously, we don't delete posts when asked by a contributer just because he or she feels disparaged by a certain comment. |
You wouldn't even take his or her complaints into account then?
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You'd certainly have to delete half of MrP's comments and a few of yours, that's for sure.  |
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| #34 (permalink) Thu Jul 17, 2008 13:57 pm according to work or appearance |
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And I can tell you, as an engineer, on the job, there is no difference.
Only this, if I am not mistaken, there is a rule that says I cannot get pregnant in the first year of my employment. |
But the men can, right? |
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| #36 (permalink) Thu Jul 17, 2008 22:29 pm according to work or appearance |
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Would you consider this insulting?
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Since the "poster in question" was a certain "Furrykef", on another forum, I'm not sure why a certain "Molly", on this forum, should find it insulting; especially as the Molly in question responded with "Quite true".
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| #37 (permalink) Thu Jul 17, 2008 22:58 pm according to work or appearance |
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Where is the evidence? |
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