To be deleted for calling someone a muppet?

[ConstanceMoan]

Seriously?

Would you take offence at being described as a muppet? Would it bother you so much that you'd go to the trouble of reporting it? If you were a MN mod would you delete it?

This isn't really a TAAT before anyone gets their knickers in a twist but, really, on a site where MNetters regularly call other women names I would never use such as

C*nts
Bitches
Wank stains
Old bags/hags

To name but a few, is muppet really a delectable offense? And who in the name of Justine actually reports this stuff...

But how can saying "the OP was a muppet" be a personal attack? Attack - really??!

Were they a muppet though?

Yes, it's a personal attack.
You are supposed to attack the post not the poster.
I would not be irritated with mnhq for deleting me, I would be irritated with the saddo that reported it.

But, as others have said, it would depend on the context. One of the nastiest behaviour towards me from another poster didn't include calling me anything. She was fucking vile, all in seemingly polite dispassionate tones.

at the dog called Muppet.

An ex used to call people fraggles, as in 'fuck off you smelly little fraggle'

Did you call 'sock muppet'

ROAR at Beaker being all me me me. Proper guffaw.

Ya but, it is a personal attack

Ha! Yabu not ya but!

SueChef what a great username. Clever.

I am genuinely baffled by the things MNHQ deletes sometimes. I once had a post deleted because I asked someone to clarify something. I didn't insult anyone, personally attack anyone or say anything offensive or anything like that, I just literally asked the OP to clarify something as I didn't understand what she meant. My post was deleted "for breaking talk guidelines" .

Even the OP was baffled as to why it was deleted.

To answer the question though, no I wouldn't report someone for calling me a muppet. "Muppet" is hardly a personal attack.

If it's the post I'm thinking of (and it might not be) you were actually quite rude.

What did you actually say, OP? In what context?

I had a post merely consisting of deleted once.
Which I thought was odd, given that purportedly means "No Comment" and was provided by MNHQ itself.

One of our cats is called Muppet. And he is. This is the cat who falls asleep on the narrow windowsill, then falls off said windowsill. Then gets back onto the windowsill and goes back to sleep. And falls off. Rinse and repeat all evening.

We've moved the sofa to being underneath the windowsill so he at least gets a soft landing...

First of all, I am humbled that my thread has been graced with the presence of not just real muppets but sooty as well

To those asking what I said, only that the OP was a muppet and the people encouraging her to plaster the problem all over FB were "loons".

Maybe it was a loon who reported it

muppet goes inthe same category as daft 'a'p'orth, plonker, and silly billy.

It's an affectionate term. YANBU

How would you define someone being a muppet? Is there specific muppet like behaviour? Like having a hand up your arse? I'm intrigued!

I have just been deleted for calling the op a PERSON albeit it had cold hearted in front of it, But really?

A delectable offence indeed.

I have been deleted once after some muppet accused me of stalking her across MN. We'd posted on two threads and disagreed on both. I said if that constituted stalking for her, she was delusional. Only ever deletion. I was fuming. I didn't attack her, I pointed out her failings.

I call my kids muppets all the time (and numpties) when they do something daft, or accuse them of mupine behaviour. I had no idea I was using an offensive term.

Op: yes I probably would take offence at being called a muppet. It's an insult really isn't it.

But I wouldn't report you.

I fail to see what is so offensive about that. YANBU.

I call my kids muppets all the time when they do something a bit silly. I also call them numpties - to the point that my DS (3) has started called me a numpty randomly! I consider both to be innocuous and fairly affectionate, along the same lines as 'silly billy.'