I've just seen that the term 'fucking retarded' was left to stand, and the poster who reported it was told it shouldn't be deleted.
That really shocks me and I think it's a real shame coming from MNHQ.
I saw this because the person reporting started a thread asking whether the term were acceptable or not, and it's been deleted with no explanation except that it was 'against talk guidelines'.
I know it was a TAAT (as is this), but generally, threads asking reasonable questions are left to stand for a little, with an explanation from HQ on them. I'm hoping for a better result here in Site Stuff, as it seems to me it's a pretty important question.
Are you defending a policy of not deleting insults like 'fucking retarded'? Is it now unacceptable to question that sort of thing? And does it have to do with this ongoing issue with threads about feminism - which is where the term was used, and in the context of some very nasty (undeleted) attacks on feminist posters.
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What is going on with personal attacks/disablist language being left to stand?!
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JeanneDeMontbaston · 17/06/2015 19:20
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