My reading of TwistingFingers’s words was that s/he did mean “please feel free to be harsh about me”, not “I wish to be free to be harsh about others”. I don’t see what other interpretation is possible, given “on the writing style of this post”.
I think your interpretation is correct, and that’s how I interpreted it, but I can understand Bobertron’s interpretation as well. He thought TwistingFingers was declaring Crocker’s rules as a sort of apology for the accusatory “writing style of [the] post”, which would as Bobertron suggests be using the declaration in the wrong direction.
I only say this because you wrote:
I don’t see what other interpretation is possible, given “on the writing style of this post”.
My reading of TwistingFingers’s words was that s/he did mean “please feel free to be harsh about me”, not “I wish to be free to be harsh about others”. I don’t see what other interpretation is possible, given “on the writing style of this post”.
I think your interpretation is correct, and that’s how I interpreted it, but I can understand Bobertron’s interpretation as well. He thought TwistingFingers was declaring Crocker’s rules as a sort of apology for the accusatory “writing style of [the] post”, which would as Bobertron suggests be using the declaration in the wrong direction.
I only say this because you wrote: