Originally Posted by Dovster
"Jews are misers."
"Gays are perverts."
"Blacks are lazy."
All these are personal attacks, even without the "you". True, there are some miserly Jews, some perverted Gays, and some lazy Blacks, but as soon as you say that every member of a particular group has a negative characteristic it becomes personal.
Setting aside my quibble that you failed to insert "all" in front of your statements (leaving them ambiguous), it's still not a personal attack. If it's anti-semitic or racist or homophobic, it doesn't belong on FT, but not belonging on FT doesn't make it a personal attack. If the world of what doesn't belong on FT or is disallowed (as personal attacks are) can be seen as a big pie, the portion of that pie which is personal attacks is some portion less than 100%. Say, for example, that portion is 25%, then 75% of the pie is things like racist statements, homophobic statements, anti-semitic statements, things like posting to the board personal information about other members without their permission, etc.
I suppose if you get down to splitting hairs, you can make "stop" mean "go", and perhaps that's what I'm doing here; who knows, but to me, remarks insulting a class of people can never be personal attacks. They can get you permanently banned, for sure. But they can't be considered personal attacks (IMO). Though you can personally take offense, if you so choose.
Anyway, that's what I think.