The illiberalism of hypersensitivity

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3. If you open up the "alert abuse" link on the bottom of a post, it gives you four options

This discussion thread is off-topic, or violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

This post includes a copyright violation.

This person's avatar image or signature line is inappropriate.

You told another poster to "Go play in traffic or bother someone else if you don't have anything to contribute."

In any context, that's a dick thing to say. So you were alerted on and four other people figured, yeah, that's a dick thing to say. it's not "hypersensitivity," it's that you said something dickish. Try to not do that. especially when you're only a handful of posts in.