User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/ADMIN BLOG POST: Revisiting Rules, and The Future of Featured Quote/@comment-32154022-20120625011413/@comment-1874924-20120625021804

That's where you're wrong, Manatee, offensiveness is inherently "in the eye of the beholder". There is no objective, universally accepted standard for what is offensive. That's why there's no such thing as a right to not be offended. In any case, your example is really more of an intimidation/harassment situation, which is a separate rule. Furthermore, saying that you wouldn't agree with an offensive statement suggests that you may be defining offensiveness (as all too many people do) based largely on whether you disagree--and that's precisely the problem with our current policy. As thing stand now, we could have "two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner."

As for new admins, I've just commented on that in a different thread.