No ES doesn't allow personal insults.
The problem here is that what many might see as harmless banter, others will see as an insult. If I'm perfectly honest there are things you've posted here, Lynda, that have made my hackles rise to a far greater extent than anything that Eddie's ever posted. You had a serious poke at me not too long ago, for example, which I have to say did seem at the time to be a borderline insult from my perspective.
My lack of reaction to Eddies style of posting may well be because I've just had a couple of years longer to get used to it, or it may well be that I spent most of my working life working very closely with the military, where his brand of banter is the norm (if anything I'd say his was mild, by that standard). For example, if I wasn't greeted by a few choice insults when walking into the crew room in the morning I'd have wondered what was wrong with everyone.
It's all well and good to say that his banning now was as a consequence of past apparent transgressions, but is that reasonable? Punishment long after an event, and with no warning, is not considered reasonable by most, I would have thought.
The problem here is that what many might see as harmless banter, others will see as an insult. If I'm perfectly honest there are things you've posted here, Lynda, that have made my hackles rise to a far greater extent than anything that Eddie's ever posted. You had a serious poke at me not too long ago, for example, which I have to say did seem at the time to be a borderline insult from my perspective.
My lack of reaction to Eddies style of posting may well be because I've just had a couple of years longer to get used to it, or it may well be that I spent most of my working life working very closely with the military, where his brand of banter is the norm (if anything I'd say his was mild, by that standard). For example, if I wasn't greeted by a few choice insults when walking into the crew room in the morning I'd have wondered what was wrong with everyone.
It's all well and good to say that his banning now was as a consequence of past apparent transgressions, but is that reasonable? Punishment long after an event, and with no warning, is not considered reasonable by most, I would have thought.