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[quote user="steinjr"][quote user="Bucyrus"] <p>I see nothing in the rules that prohibits criticizing an individual. Here is the rule that comes closest:</p><p> </p><p><font size="3">- <strong>No personal attacks or name-calling.</strong> Please keep conversations cordial. We understand that there will be differences of opinion. Please don't let those differences turn ugly. Accept that others might not have your same point of view, don't sink to personal attacks. Nothing is gained by doing so.</font></p><p>Criticism can occur without being a personal attack. And even personal attack in its most vicious form has been allowed to pile up page after page on this forum. Maybe the problem was criticizing Europe. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p> The thread in question was not about trains. As I read it, it was a couple of conservative posters that apparently felt a need to air their general distrust of "liberals" and "europhiles", people who in the mind of some arch-conservative Americans is just one step removed from communists and similar Evil Bogeymen (tm).</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I must have missed all that. The reason Selector gave for locking the thread was:</p><p>"This topic is not within the rules in that it appears to single out an invidivual for criticism."</p><p>There was no mention of it being off-topic or political.</p>
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