So according to the "lead by example" method I can only assume we are back to the old days of personal attacks being A-OK?
Heh, the old days.
As you will note by the first link in Boberfett's public dressing down:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=31069944#post31069944
Some of our esteemed overlords seem to have a history of publicly berating other posters, which seems to violate Rule 1 of our "Forum Guidelines"
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=60552
Rule 13 seems to be often referred to by our moderators as they publicly deride members for their misjudgements, but the same violations of Rule 1 by the overlords seem to often fall between the cracks. Being Rule 1, the first and most prominent rule, would make it seem to the lay person as the "cardinal rule" but that may not be the case.
It seems our Overlords have been kind enough to make a set of "Forum Guidelines" and published that for us to follow, of course some are guidelines, other are steadfast rules of conduct, much is left to interpretation. Possibly there is another set of guidelines that they follow, that we plebeians are not privy to.
It is of course *slightly* ironic that some of our overlords continually rant and rave against the perceived inconsiderations of the elite class, the so-called 1 per-centers. How their words and actions place utmost importance upon themselves and so little importance to the people who actually make up the bulk of their ability to exist. Yet given a small taste of power, they themselves, choose to operate their small domain with an unrelenting iron fist that crushes all dissension.
All dissenting opinions are shuffled off to the Moderator Discussion area for re-education, where the individual has but a tiny voice among the bullhorns of moderator disapproval.
The good old days, we should wish for such a pleasant time.