Its funny how the standard for calling someone a troll is whether or not some other person is offended by what they say INSTEAD of whether the post's aim is to simply upset people.
It's less about being offended and more about saying something false and stupid.
I don't know how much of the conversation you caught...but the topic of "neutral media" came up and nausi stated he thought fox news was the closest thing at one point.
Which is his personal opinion on how "close", which is a relative term, one news organization is or was, as compared to other news organizations are or aren't. The rules clearly state that we aren't supposed to attack other posters.
Here is an example of disagreeing with someone without resorting to personal attacks...
Fox is pretty right leaning and advertised as such....
This is proper discourse. I disagree with your assessment and here is my reasoning behind it...
And here we see an example of breaking the forum rules.
name calling
harassment
rather than polite adult conversation as in the first example this second and third example is what is known as a "personal attack" as you stated "It's less about being offended and more about saying something false and stupid."
In matters of personal opinion to attack the opinion by saying their opinion is false and/or stupid is tantamount to attacking the person themselves.
What makes matters worse is in this particular case is that the poster making the personal attacks is SUPPOSED TO BE ENFORCING RULES AGAINST SUCH BEHAVIOR.
Perhaps... it is too much to ask that these forum moderators set a good example of the tone and discourse that should be used in these forums... in which case I would argue that they should at the very least
shut the hell up.
We can't block them so they should learn how to behave like adults or failing that at the very least keep their big traps shut.
But then again, I've been caught enjoying both a hawaiian pizza and a bbq chicken pizza and while I would argue that neither should really be considered pizza in the traditional sense
THEY BOTH HAD PINEAPPLE ON THEM WHICH INVALIDATES ALL OF MY OPINIONS