Lucca wrote
> So your view is that posters can comment how they wish on a thread without accusations of derailing ?
I did not write that.
There is a balance of what is reasonable and what is not, and there is an uncertainty as to the dividing line.
For example, there was a law case some years ago that may help to clarify.
A female actor performed in a play which the public could attend.
A newspaper sent a theatre critic and the newspaper published a review of the play.
Within the review there was comment about the size, shape or prominence of the female actor's bottom.
She complained to the newspaper. The newspaper took the line that the play was a performance that the public could attend, so they had a right to publish a review.
The dispute went to court.
The judge rules that as the play was open to the public, the newspaper had a right to post a review of the play.
However, although they had a right to comment upon their assessment of the performance, to express an opinion as to how well or otherwise the actor had expressed and interpreted the content of the play, they did not have a right to comment upon the shape or whatever of parts of her body as that was not about the play or her performance.
I consider that, given the way that the original post was presented to the public, no reference to it being in remembrance of someone, that it was entirely reasonable for the phrase "nasty thing" to be used about the text presented, and thus having been published, in the illustration.
That was a comment about the content of the original post.
I have tried to be objective about this, though as I too consider that the text in the illustration in the original post is nasty, that may have biased me.
I consider that the text having been written by a woman about a man is no excuse. There should be no "woman about a man" exemption to decency.
To clarify, if say, a thread were started on the topic of, say, Polish culture, it would not be reasonable, in my opinion, for someone to post, "Ah, culture, there is Spanish culture, that is a culture too, I'll post about Spanish culture in this thread."
> Or being told to start another thread ?
Well, if a claque arrives, then they can be politely asked to leave the theatre.
