Personal attacks against community members are against the rules. The AC being discussed is aristarchus, who is banned i.e. he is not a community member. Otherwise criticism of Trump, AOC or anyone else in the world would also be forbidden but that would be ludicrous for a discussion site. As I am sure you will have noted, they also are not community members.
And you are quite right, people can moderate as they see fit. Perhaps everybody who has read the comments in question agree with them?
Finally, the only way we can inform ACs when they are doing something wrong - which I don't think that they are in this case - is to make a comment. You have just done that. That will save anyone else having to do it.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday October 22, @02:27PM
Well you are correct in parts.
Personal attacks against community members are against the rules. The AC being discussed is aristarchus, who is banned i.e. he is not a community member. Otherwise criticism of Trump, AOC or anyone else in the world would also be forbidden but that would be ludicrous for a discussion site. As I am sure you will have noted, they also are not community members.
And you are quite right, people can moderate as they see fit. Perhaps everybody who has read the comments in question agree with them?
Finally, the only way we can inform ACs when they are doing something wrong - which I don't think that they are in this case - is to make a comment. You have just done that. That will save anyone else having to do it.
Enjoy the rest of your day!