[[Wikipedia:Civility]]
That rule is far too broad and ambiguous to be meaningful. If were are to interpt it in the way that you're saying, then practically anything could be considered uncivil, since disagreements over anything vaguely controversial will lead to 'conflict' and 'stress' making this a hand-holding, coddling policy that no one, yourself included, actually follows.
Didn't you recently make an e-mail to this list that you didn't care if people were offended by certain categorizations on wikipedia and that they should suck it up? That seems like a blatant violation of this silly interpretation of civility which you change the meaning of to suit you. It's clear that you don't think this is a hand-holding encyclopedia based on other statements, but just for the purpose of justifying your wrongful ban you're changing that stance.
The rules are explicitly different for Nathan J. Yoder; that's what a short-leash personal attack parole, such as you've been put on, means. Any admin feels you've made a personal attack, *ZAP*. Having run out of words, we've had to resort to [[B. F. Skinner]] and the lessons of Professor Cattleprod.
Run out of what words? This is the first time you've actually responded to my concerns and even then you still haven't address them. You *still* haven't defined what a personal attack is and I've already proven your absurd "all reasonable people know what it is" argument to be wrong as evidenced by the many people on the talk page who agree with me that it's not clear.
If you really don't want the choke chain to bite, I strongly suggest doing your best not to say anything that could *conceivably* be taken as a personal attack, since you don't have much of a feel for what is and isn't.
You don't seem to either, since you've personally attacked me. So why should an arbitrator who can't judge themselves using their own criteria be able to do it?
This doesn't make sense anyway, it's just "because we say so" logic
You're quite capable of writing sensible, well thought-out emails that contribute quality to the discussion, you sent one today and one yesterday. This is the only reason you haven't just been kicked off.
Not when someone is being a hypocrite, liar or otherwise POV pushing. Dealing with someone like that lends itself to "conflict" and "stress" no matter what, but you are deliberately ignoring that. Your behavior is quite obnoxious here (just mirroring one of your non-personal-attacks back at you).
"This is the only reason you haven't just been kicked off" is ridiculous and only goes further to show how biased you are.
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