Timeline for Discouraging the use of personal attacks and epithets such as "crackpot"
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| Feb 4, 2011 at 19:57 | comment | added | Deepak Vaid | Whatever floats your boat @Andrew | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 22:00 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | So you'd rather there not be a word for a concept that exists? Newspeak anyone? | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 13:24 | comment | added | Deepak Vaid | Yes. And the use of epithets ("crackpot", "reality deprived" etc.) is not helpful for constructive debate. | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 12:40 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | But you said "the word "crackpot" is an epithet". | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 12:38 | comment | added | Deepak Vaid | Its not a question of terminology, but of conduct. | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 12:23 | history | answered | Andrew Grimm | CC BY-SA 2.5 |