how has this not happened, 3 and 4

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WE ALL KNOW HOW I TALKING ABOUT

NChavez, if you are going to start an inflammatory thread, at least show the class of addressing those with whom you have a problem.

I, myself, agree there have been too many hostile, personal attack posts on the Forum, and people need to focus on SOM and baseball.

We could do without hostile, abusive posts like this one:

You people are full of it if you believe this game is reasonably priced in this day and age. They HAVE to charge an arm and a leg because they NEVER get any new blood. It's just progressively getting worse every year with less and less giving a shit being obvious.

And offensive ageist posts like this one:

This game has so much potential to set itself apart from the competition but at this point it has become an embarrassment of old farts who are holding it back from being the true game it could be.

Let's make this a nicer place.

See ya old timers. Have a nice life.

See ya old timers. Have a nice life.

Huh, what'd you say? My hearings goin' bad!
You and your 1.2 million youtube followers get off my lawn! I'm trying to take a nap!

Well, if the powers-that-be at Strat don't monitor the board enough to even be aware that they were called "old farts," I am not going to shed a tear for them. Not to mention, "offensive" can either be in the eye of the beholder or according to a community standard. I don't personally consider the phrase offensive, and if I were to use the phrase, it would be connected to state of mind than age. For example, my father was old at age 93, but he also was quite proficient with the Internet and if he had had a need for a cell, he would have mastered that tech pretty quickly too. Me, on the other hand? I miss some of the old DOS commands and find my cell phone to be a neat little replacement for my travel alarm clock.

You may not consider "old farts" offensive, Blue Turtle. But it is, by most community standards, an offensive ageist term when it is hurled at a group whose large lot of (if not majority of) members are over 50. It was addressed to all SOM managers, not just SOM

Your father sounds like an excellent man, but it would still have been rude of someone who didn't know him to call him an "old fart."

We can't cut a young whippersnapper a break?

That's not up to us; that's up to Strat. And after that truly disturbing post he addressed to me, you actually ask that? Do you want more posts like that?

Also, I'm 46, I don't think he's that much younger than me.

I wouldn't consider either of the posts shown as abusive or hostile.

I am not suggesting a break for:

Being an old fart and full of it is offensive? You're a fucking idiot. That is the truth. Suspend me forever, I don't give a shit you are a horrible piece of shit human being and i hope someone takes a hot dump in your mouth. Asshole.

But "old fart" as ageist and offensive? You're never going to convince me that even a sizable of minority of people think it is, even if it had been directed specifically at them.