geisha wrote:Ok, so I started a thread putting up a thesis based on my own observations. I generally stated that many people on the forums seem to have their difficulties in seeing the difference between attacking someone’s personality and making sarcastic remarks about ingame happenings. I further claimed that the meaning of respect is often misinterpreted on the forums.
Who are you to decide how people should take things. It seems people have difficulty in understanding that people do take offense and when they asked you to stop, you stop. You don't publicly denounce them and call them over-sensative and go back to insulting with 'justification'.
geisha wrote:I said that I don’t think this is a good thing for the community as it is killing the fun and the role playing (or what ever was left of it).
Insulting and satirical nonsense is not the only way to enjoy one's self on forums. If it is the only valid way for you to have fun, then you need to rethink your position. I along with most of the community can have fun without resorting to petty insults and then trying to justify them, either through threads such as these, or misuse of moderating powers.
geisha wrote:I did not direct it at anyone personally.
My post was very respectful.
I made clear in the very first sentence of my post that I am not encouraging disrespectful behaviour at all.
You advocated the posting of satircal pictures and the public denounciation of people who take offense and react. Saying that they must obviously have failed to grasp the difference between ingame and real life and need to be re-educated. Which was a veiled way of saying, if you don't like my humour, tough. You don't have a life and i'm fully justified in insulting you.
geisha wrote:I must say I was shocked to see where the thread was going in 13 pages of posts. People started pointing fingers, personal insults were thrown around, almost everybody was flaming each other…
Shocked? You were laughing the whole way through in your postings. You admitted the entire post was bait to get people under the 'respect' group to react and were quite happy and proud with the chaos the thread had caused. Don't you try take the moral high ground here. You baited and now you're pleading innocence.
geisha wrote:This was certainly not what I intended with my post but it does make one thing clear: the issue I described in my post does exist. People have been showing once again, that they are reacting overly sensitive and are confusing personal things with game related things.
As above. But you fail to see the issue. People do take offense and instead of acknowledging that and realising that you have been insulting towards them, continue to try find justification for such behaviour.
The Crux of your argument:
Oh i insulted a person and he took offense. Obviously he is over-sensative and wrong and he is the person who has the issue. This is because i found my statement funny and the forums don't aren't fun unless people are insulting each other 
geisha wrote:I have moved that thread away because there is no point in giving people a platform to tear each other in pieces in the name of respect.
Then why were the war threads which a lot of this insulting was brought up not moved completely from the public eye sight? Maybe its because they didn't have informed posts which reveal your shortcommings and that the second you are on the end of the stick, use your moderating powers to make the problem go away. The thread should have been locked if spamming had occuring, so that people could have read it. You didn't move. You covered up.
geisha wrote:It is quite disappointing to see such a reaction to a thread that started out respectfully with the sole purpose of discussing the use and misuse of the term respect.
Sad, really.
So your respect i.e advocating people to insult is more valid than the respect group's respect, which is promoting positive postings through example. Who is the person mis-using the term respect here?
geisha wrote:Oh and this thread’s purpose is to offer a second chance to have a discussion about the above described issue. If it goes the same way as the old thread, then it will also find the same ending.
The old, "If this thread doesn't go my way, it goes to the highway."
without the flaming.
Personal insults should never be allowed no matter the reason.