orcot wrote:Does anyone use private messages on this forum?

Yeah, we do, but is seems to be sparingly these days.

yes.

Xard wrote:But since there is no corresponding change in forum rules in 2020 in comparison to 2014 you can't really expect an old-timer like me to know such change has taken place.

You were told, IN PMs, that the rules say "no chanspeak". What could your instinct to append "-fag" to nouns for the lulz be accurately described as? Chanspeak. Therefore it's against the rules. This isn't quantum mechanics. Perhaps more importantly (in the context of not merely your first post back, but your return on the whole): why would you so casually assume that the past decade of extraordinary social change would not touch these forums? Is this the first time in several years that you've wandered outside a heavily reinforced series of personal echo chambers, or what?

If you're okay with doing in Rome as the Romans do, actually act like it, instead of doing this duplicitous shit-stirring nonsense. Stop being a stubborn old holdout who struggles to conform to the most basic expectations of social code-switching; stop digging into the archives to justify your current shitty behavior (leave that "oh-HOH, see, people acted different once YEARS AGO, therefore they're just as bad as I am!!!" garbage for Twitter please); stop leaning on pitifully entitled and out-of-touch "lol just a joke! sasuga sjwfags" defensiveness because apparently owning up to your past of sanctimonious pseudointellectual bigoted screeds is too hard; stop publicly insulting the people who volunteer their time and effort into keeping this place alive. You are not doing anything to help your own case. You are screaming "SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY" at the top of your lungs.

I used fat rubbery kid gloves with you to start with, but they're off now.