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I cannot understand the meaning of disrespectful.

(Please note that I write this post only for the record. I personally do not hope that some changes will be made.)

I have been informed of some contradictory policies (attitudes), which I personally do not care, but they may cause some abuses threatening the Codidact future.

## They are not *disrespectful*?!!!!!

Besides my previous experience in which someone called one of my posts "rant", there are some new experiences none of which has been considered as *disrsepectful*. Let us take a look at them.

The author of [this post](https://meta.codidact.com/a/278351/278353) talk about my post in their last paragraph:

> As an aside, the specific post you refer to was mishandled. ... When **trolls** make **absurd** suggestions like that, they only make themselves look **stupid**. By deleting it, you deprived others the opportunity to see what a **troll** this user was, and in some way legitimized the point by taking it seriously. Just downvote and laugh it off instead of feeding the **troll**.

Another example:

In a comment under [this post](https://meta.codidact.com/a/278310/278311), the commenter describes my post in the following way:

> The post is however classic internet **trolling**: not interested in contributing constructively but posting for the sole reason to cause conflict and drama.

Attributing offensive words such as "troll", "stupid", "absurd", ... to a specific user or their actions is not an example of *disrespectfulness*?

I personally do not have any problem with their behavior towards me; even, I did not flag such posts. In fact, I easily ignore people attacking me without arguing reasonably.

## I am *disrespectful*?!!!!!

In the previous part, we saw some examples of *respectfulness*. Let us see whether the last paragraph of my meta post is disrespectful or not.

The authorities do not allow me to quote my deleted paragraph, so you can see it in [the initial version of the answer](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/278304/history).

As you can see, no offensive word was used in the paragraph.

A moderator explains [in this answer](https://meta.codidact.com/a/278310/278313) why the post is disrespectful as follows.

> The answer, especially in the broader context of the question (from the same author) and other activity, came across as disrespectful bordering on personal attack.

This claim is obviously false.  I always use respectful language in my posts, which is completely clear in my posts on Meta. Some community team **only** claim that my post is disrespectful without showing any evidence.

In that paragraph, having been informed that Codidact is not  the first priority of each of the community team (This fact is also confirmed in [this answer](https://meta.codidact.com/a/278310/278311)), I stated that they can make some other decisions in case they have not enough free time (My opinion might be wrong, but it is not disrespectful at all).

The moderator continues:

> "you should all step down and give me complete power" doesn't sound very constructive.

This is another false claim; I never said that. I only mentioned a sentence **in parentheses** stating that **if** you are unable to find unpaid employees, I can do that in case I have some authority. I mentioned such a statement **only** because of preventing some people asking me to show unpaid employees. In fact, **only** viewing a sentence in parentheses and ignoring the main text is not *constructive*.

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## Some Advice

I want to end this post with the following advice:

- You may face some options on Meta, with which you are disagree; in such cases, you can downvote them and express your opinions in comments. However, there are some people who **cannot** argue reasonably against an opinion, so they may try to attack the author of the opinion in comments or other posts by using offensive words or wild character assassination. In such cases please **only ignore** them. Please neither downvote nor comment; even, your downvote may encourage their toxic behavior (Please do not conflate such behavior and criticizing. For example [this post](https://meta.codidact.com/a/278310/278313) criticizes my behavior. Although I disagree with its criticism, I never consider it as toxic behavior).