# Does civilized discourse entail tone policing?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-civilized-discourse-entail-tone-policing/50039
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [12.Сентябрь.2016 21:22:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-civilized-discourse-entail-tone-policing/50039 "2016-09-12T21:22:37Z")
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### Author: ![Rob\_Nicholson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rob_nicholson/32/63483_2.png) [@Rob\_Nicholson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Rob_Nicholson)
#### Post date: [13.Сентябрь.2016 16:35:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-civilized-discourse-entail-tone-policing/50039/20 "2016-09-13T16:35:06Z")

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Is this an example of where tone policing was used to shutdown a heated debate on a very common topic in the Discourse world?

> [@WYSIWYG Plugin (again)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wysiwyg-plugin-again/39747):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Who would prefer a standard wysiwyg to markdown?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-would-prefer-a-standard-wysiwyg-to-markdown/31340/76): I checked with the founders and they are ok with us restarting this thread with a view to discussing the development of a plugin to deliver some form of WYSIWYG post editing in Discourse. Bearing in mind @sam’s & @codinghorror’s previous comments that the core team would not consider undertaking such development for the foreseeable future, what remains is the opportunity for the rest of us to get together and pr…

Yes it wandered off a technical discussion into a grievance but to shut it down? Should have been split off.

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