User blog comment:Humans Vanish/Vandalism/@comment-3546856-20110425041015/@comment-217683-20110425071726

Ok, here's my take on this matter: The site policy states that "Insulting other users" is grounds for banning (found in the "Banning" section of the Community Guidelines). "Users" is a synonym for "editors" in this context, though I may just change the former to the latter.

Now, interpreting the policy literally, which some of you know I just love to do, we see that it's a violation of policy to insult other editors. Vandals are not editors. They're vandals. Hence, using this literal interpretation of site policy, calling a vandal a moron is not a violation of site policy. You aren't insulting another editor, and it isn't crude or vulgar language in and of itself. To sum up, I see nothing wrong with Humans Vanish's initial comment, though I can't say I'm too pleased with some of his later commentary addressing Lancer1289.