I really don't want to sound like Supreme Court Justice Scalia, but I have a creepy feeling that I will anyway. Don't "speak ill" is too unrestrictive, too nebulous. In our inevitable but often lively contretemps, we often use sarcasm and, occasionally, direct derision. We count on the responses of the Head-fi community itself to delineate what behaviors are acceptable. The Mods enforce policies and make authoritative judgment calls in the last resort.
I mean, we wouldn't want to ban sarcasm, would we? That wouldn't be what the Founding Fathers intended at all. Are we going to prevent people from posting pictures of the cruel experiments on animal auditory response and double-blind testing conducted at nefarious research facilities like Grado Labs? Are we going to prevent people from even describing the merciless procedures by which limpid-eyed puppies and kitties are alarmed and over-excited by responsive but somewhat forward drivers? And what if I happen to be an aficionado of the aesthetically sublime and morally ennobling sport of Spanish bull-fighting? Are we simply, bluntly going to limit the lowest frequencies of public discourse? I happen to know a lot of people who listen to headphones who also take an utterly civil pleasure from the spectacle of enraging a Spanish bull by penetrating its shoulder muscles with the barbs of large, colored darts and leading it on a merry though often balletic frolic back and forth across the arena to the intimately responsive but somewhat forward and over-enthusiastic cheers of tax-paying citizens. Will we insist that we cannot openly display the majestic if tragic finale when the matador dispatches the confused and exhausted animal with a single thrust of his sabre. Do we mean to outlaw quail hunting? Shall we deny expressive freedom to those esteemed members of this august forum who incidentally identify their veneration of the authority of the Bishop of Rome with a penchant for Roman bloodsports? You can talk about your passion for Roman bloodsports all you want on couponmom.com. Are we going to deny our members that same inalienable right?
