(2017-09-08, 11:53 AM)chuck Wrote: Agreed. It is enough for members to quote something and say--I strongly disagree with 'X' that you just said. There should be little need to remove material unless it is clearly defamatory--accusing someone of being a necrophile, for example. And if something is borderline defamatory, it can be debated and discussed right there in that thread or in a side thread, like this.
Thanks for your input, Chuck. The interesting thing for me is that everybody seems to feel that there is some limit - you give the example of accusations of necrophilia; berkelon gives the example of hate speech; Chris gives the example of being accused of sex crimes (IIRC, sorry if I paraphrased badly, Chris). I think this all points in a similar direction, so it's not all that problematic, and, as Chris says, a hard-and-fast rule is going to be difficult to specify, but I think we can define something relatively specific.
By the way, having seen Max_B's potentially defamatory comments in context, what did you make of them?