Legislate the usage of the word "troll"

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RolStoppable said:

vivster said:

And you really think people who don't care how an argument started and are likely to be future offenders care enough to PM a mod?

And about X is more offending than Y. That's a subjective standard you've set yourself which doesn't help your argument. For example my offending standards are that anything said on the internet directly aimed at a person or group cannot be offending because there are always 2 people in the offending game and if you let yourself be offended it's your own problem.

Sadly not everyone on this world is that open so we need strict rules to make sure everyone can grow up in a safe environment were any offending words do not exist.

The only thing this proposal will accomplish is making the work of the mods more time consuming and complicating the rules while the actual rulings in those cases will not affect the tone or the user satisfaction in a significant enough measure to warrant the change. I'm all for fairness and common sense but sadly you can't have those things in a world with so many dickheads abusing rules that are not clear cut enough.

Your opinion sucks.

While his opinion does suck, the bolded is true. It takes more time to review the thread to see why someone got called a troll than it does to just ban/warn the name caller. 

I think the OP should be reworded to just remove the rule in the first place. But I don't take offense to silly things like this petty name calling. Now if someone called me a Jew or a clown, then I'd be reporting it all day long.