And while some may wish to argue that one or more of our family here at 68kMLA provoked such rules, I suspect rather that severe outside pressure was the key to it.

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It must have been the ESIAA (eBay Sellers Industry Association of America). }

Regardless of why the mods decided to implement that rule, there is a need for a lot of us to adjust our attitudes. Maligning people over irrelevant things is a problem around here. Now I'm not talking about expressing a difference in opinions here. MacAttack94 certainly made a relevant point: perhaps I was over-stating the floppy situation. (I don't think so, disagreement is what differences in opinion are about.)

But System7's original floppy disk burner comment was a barb. It didn't express anything directly, but it did imply, "this is how stupid some people are." That is malicious, even if it is meant to be humorous. It is not a difference in opinion.