this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

The following things are not grounds for murder:

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  1. Be civil and remember the human. No name calling or insults. Swearing in general is fine, but not to insult someone else.
  2. Discussion is encouraged but arguments are not. Don’t be aggressive and don’t argue for arguments sake.
  3. No bigotry of any kind.
  4. Censor the person info of anyone not in the public eye.
  5. If you break the rules you’ll get one warning before you’re banned.
  6. Enjoy the community in the light hearted way it’s intended.

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[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is not a murder. It's not even an insult. It's a calm explanation of what happened.

[–] hypnotoad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best kind of murder-insult!

[–] SomeoneElseMod@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what I was thinking, there’s absolutely no coming back from that.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personal opinion, but that's more clever comeback territory. I see now that the definition of a murder by words is different here than it was on reddit.

[–] SomeoneElseMod@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

I created both communities on lemmy - I did contact the reddit mods first but they didn’t reply. The reddit murdered by words rules were a bit over the top imo, hence me changing them. FWIW all the posts here are from r/murderedbywords so they satisfied the mods over there. Do you think it’s worthwhile having both communities on lemmy or should I merge the two? I’m the only one who posts to either one so it’s easy enough to just let this one die!

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Murders can be calm

[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

J-j-jet fuel?