a tried and true, if not always sustainable, policy...

[lagilman]

Friend: "You didn't comment on X!"
Me: "Because I didn't want to debate the stupid premise."
Friend: "You're banned from the Internet."

Comments

[madrobins]

If someone would just ban me from the internet I'd get so much more work done.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Amazing how you have no problem calling certain arguments stupid when you're doing it. It's when someone else does it, you are getting the vapors.

[lagilman]

Your logic is...flawed at best.

Saying that someone's opinion is stupid n conversation simply because you disagree with it, is not the same as saying "I didn't comment on unnamed incident elsewhere because I thought it was stupid."

In the first example, they're getting in a person's face and insulting them.

In the second, I decided that I wasn't even going to get involved because I thought the discussion was stupid, and said so to someone not involved in the original debate. No rudeness, no direct contact.

If you really can't tell the difference...well, that explains a lot, actually, as does your describing being told to abide by a community's rules as someone "getting the vapors."