Tom Haws said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
Some people have lower boiling points than others and can easily be provoked.
This is not to my knowledge a terminal condition or a good excuse. We can all learn to boil slowly and gently. The message of the policy is clear. "Take responsibility for your own temper."
Absolutely. I completely agree with this.
However I was pointing out that an undesired side-effect of enforcing "no personal attacks" with blocking could be, paradoxically, to give some people an incentive to provoke _more_ personal attacks.