Another board I frequent recently went through the whole PC thing with the word Nazi.
It is a medieval recreation group, and the word was used to refer to people who were unbearbly rude and strict about out of period items in people's camps, and even their garb.
It was pointed out that comparing rude and boorish behavior to the those responsible for the Holocaust was trivializing the suffering of Jews. So, the word was banned from the group.
Personally, I think it was a case of political correctness taken to extremes. Nobody there seriously thought the two were equivalent. However, in order to not offend people, they opted to make it policy that they not use the term.
UF is, and has been, overly concerned with political correctness, IMO. The result of rampant rules-lawyering over the FYOS rule has turned the board into a Disney version of what it once was.
With that in mind, I fully expect if you were to pursue this, you could get the terms Spelling Nazi and Grammar Nazi banned from the board.
Just so you know, I believe the original uses of these terms came from one or more of our German members. The one I am thinking of is a tolerant, kind, and inoffensive young man. I'm sure a literal comparison was not what he had in mind. As a matter of fact, he has said on several occasions that he used it to indicate that it was a good hearted correction, not a pedantic, stodgy, better-than-you type of correction.
So, it's up to you. You can stand on your offended principles, and get a 3+ year old running gag ended, leaving us with a less acceptable method of dealing with people's typos and grammar mistakes, increasing the chance that someone will be offended for having their mistakes corrected publicly, or you can leave us an opportunity to cushion the blow of correction, with what is intended to be an obviously exaggerrated strictness policy.
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