I thought I already explained this to you privately, but maybe it was after this post. I'll answer again here, though, to clarify for anyone else who might wonder.
No thread chairperson can (currently) suspend any rules from our Terms of Use in their threads. The relevant example here would be personal attacks. The *site* has a policy of not allowing personal attacks, so any *thread* created on the site needs to comply with that rule.
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