At worst, it’s gauche. It’s much more likely that the moderator was personally offended by the use of that word than anything else. I have my own pet peeves. I can’t stand the sound of someone saying “an historic event” … but I’m not going to go around banning people over it. All that’s going to do is make everyone more and more angry.
This is why we put specific, actionable rules on communities, people!
This makes sense in accents that skip the H in historic. Whenever I read it I mentally assign the post a comedically posh accent. Might help you tolerate it more?
Anyway, I agree with you - we all have our pet peeves, but banning over them is just silly.
was personally offended by the use of that word saw an opportunity to tell some other person what’s what, which is deeply satisfying to them, and overrides the question of what’s the actual right and wrong thing to do
At worst, it’s gauche. It’s much more likely that the moderator was personally offended by the use of that word than anything else. I have my own pet peeves. I can’t stand the sound of someone saying “an historic event” … but I’m not going to go around banning people over it. All that’s going to do is make everyone more and more angry.
This is why we put specific, actionable rules on communities, people!
This makes sense in accents that skip the H in historic. Whenever I read it I mentally assign the post a comedically posh accent. Might help you tolerate it more?
Anyway, I agree with you - we all have our pet peeves, but banning over them is just silly.
was personally offended by the use of that wordsaw an opportunity to tell some other person what’s what, which is deeply satisfying to them, and overrides the question of what’s the actual right and wrong thing to do