Again: the difference why I was here and not going elsewhere is while this should be and was declared to me as a no banning forum for especially the people got banned from TOF. That is why I could read in the old posts I was looking for now. So yes, your feeling seems to be right.
Iām sorry, English is not my first language, is ādudeā an offensive term? I always thought it was an informal way to call another person or friend (at least in the USA). I have heard teens call ādudeā a friend (male/female), so Iām surprised to read that ādudeā can be considered offensive.
Maybe is offensive in another English-speaking country?
There are many words in Spanish that in one country are ānormalā words and in another country, the same word is a word used as a ācurse/badā word.
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That is offensive without any relationship.
In the USā¦ āDudeā can be offensive, but usually is notā¦ it depends on the context in which it is usedā¦
Thank you. I searched to see if it is offensive and the first result on Google said:
Dude is in no way derogatory or disrespectful, but is not appropriate in formal speech . It has a counter-culture vibe as it was popularized in 1960ās surfer culture. More modern culture in the 1990s say use of dude by Bart of the Simpsons and in āBill and Tedās Excellent Adventureā
I guess the context is the important part.
Edit: thank you, all clear now.
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Correct, in the context of a half-hearted apology after this person called me a fa$ci$t for no reason, I take the artistic liberty of interpreting that as not being nice 
If a friend said to me, āDude, you should check out Java,ā thatās okay. If my boss would tell me āDude, youāre fired!ā I would probably have a target for misconduct in Germany .
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When I was a kid, kids did not address adults by their first names (close family friends might have āUncle/Auntā appended as a workaround.) Formal adult relationships also had unwritten rules for formal, as opposed to familiar address (though English speakers donāt use different pronouns for the respective situations, unlike, say, German.) āDudeā, at its best, is a form of familiar address that some would find inappropriate. These rules have been breaking down, though.
What stirred this discussion was @MarkusWinter naming me āsnowflakeā.
Which means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang).
He did not explain why he did this.
First: when he said this he could not name you with it. It is the second Answer to this thread. Means: how he could mean you with the word Snowflake? As far as I can see it was not so that you could be in his focus when he said that. So I canāt see how you believe he means you personally.
Does this imply that someone who got banned from Xojoās forum can harass and insult people here with impunity?
Iām not sure that snowflake was aimed at you but the person who originally flagged Thorstenās posts
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It was certainly addressed to me. Read the first line.
two at the same time!
No. The first LINE meant me: THORSTEN. That is MY NAME and NOT YOUR NAME Torsten. so how he could mean you with it. He could not.
Did I flag these posts?
To that I can DEFINITIVELY say no you did not
Even if, it has nothing to do with it cause he could not know even IF you would be the one flagged the posts. Because he could not know he could not address you but address me.
Better use the link ā@ā for reference to people. Remains the pejorative āsnowflakeā. Who is meant?
I was the person that flagged Thorstenās original post
So I suspect that āsnowflakeā would have been aimed at me
Thorsten and I have talked
And Iām glad to see he posted an apology here
End of story as far as Iām concerned
Time to move on
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As you can see Norman I posted an Apology for my Post and corrected what was in my view not correctly handled. That is a different thing. By the way Markus did not know who was flagging the post and it is not from interest who was doing it.