Above solution doesn't fix most problems, I'm afraid.

Well, while I clearly went overboard on the issue, which I should apologize for, I still don't few confortable knowing that tags might cause disconfort to others.

Put it this ways, it got a dev away from the community; we all lose from that. Sure, the guy might have been a little touchy, as many indirectly have pointed out, but last I checked people still have a right to do so.

Also, we're working with people, not with ideal, beyond-jaded internet veterans with a permanent cynical expression carved to their faces, who know better than to care about this sort of issue. If someone is offended by a tag, it's his right to do so; it's ok to point out that a bit of indifference towards the sarcasm of others is healthy, but I don't stand with the opinion that it's a member's problem if the trolling got to him.

To close my point, while I do understand that tags work as a letout for sarcasm, which would better be left at tags than at the thread itself, it surely gets to a point where looking at each and every topic tagged with "bada rox", "android blows", "your mum blows", and the abyss knows what else, does make me feel as though others are getting out of line.

Again: when they're outright inappropriate or offensive, and brought to our attention, they will be removed.

Simple.

How would I have visited Ancient Greece? Do travel agents now take bookings for time machines? How can I recall what happened two and a half millennia before I was born? What does what happened during a performance of 'The Clouds' have to do with this topic?

And me. Don't leave me out. I think you're as much of a numpty as the next man.

Ah - somebody beat me to it on this comment I see.

Aha - I see that while my suggestion may have fallen on deaf ears, it was adopted by somebody else anyway.

Slowly working my way towards 300 posts, just in case the facility is still available when I get there, so I can inflict my lack of humour on others too.

Sure you don't. Thats why you have been crying like a thin skinned girl for about the last 5 pages.

That is an inaccurate and sexist comment, girls tend to be quite thick-skinned. Boys, however, tend to engage in contests to see who can pee up the wall the highest, and can be extremely thin-skinned when somebody pees higher than they do.

But there are plenty of thin skinned girls out there too. Especially when you say they have a fat arse.

Coincidentally, I love my wife's fat arse lol.