... calling someone a "dick" a few days prior, and one for calling people "retards" and "sheepeople" after starting a fight ...
Dick, yes. I was wrong there, and I'd actually forgotten using that. I said "you don't have to be a dick about correcting someone, just refer them to the wiki. Three other people already civilly answered him." when someone treated a newb like a moron and called them names for asking a question in the questions forum.
Actually, Toady, and I hate to argue with you publicly or privately, I did
not call anyone a retard or sheople. That was what
the people who reported me called people who use consoles. I am sure you do not have time to go back and review it, but I was muted for calling that view "ignorant and one-sided" (my
exact words).
As Cthulhu noted, I was muted for being reported by people using the words retard, sheople, and fuck. I noted the fact that I was muted for referring to a point of view as "ignorant" due to reports from the same people who cursed out the dissenters (including me) with the f-word a page earlier. The thread and posts are still there, and I didn't start the argument nor was I even half as nasty as the people that came after me.
Edit:
Ah, I forgot: As I already stated, I didn't get into trouble for calling out people for using the report button. I got in trouble for the reports resulting from threatening to use it myself. The dates are there: the reprimand resulting from those reports precludes the post in which I noted that the first person who hits the report button seemed automatically stand on the side of justice.