Following our chat at ANI something occurred to me Hi I ve thought about the question of whether it should be against the rules to call someone a little shit As the nature of a rule suggests we can talk about the principle of whether one should always issue 3 hour blocks for calling people little shit s On the other hand we don t have to apply categorical rules like that I would even suggest that our first and fundamental rule is that we don t apply categorical rules like that Now if you can impose a 3 hour block on an administrator 6 hours after they call someone a little shit and have that block generate a community wide re evaluation of our culture then that s a good block If that or some comparable effect doesn t result then it was a bad block It s not about applying abstract rules It s about what happens