to answer how offensive they thought the tweet was on a 6-point Likert scale from 1 (Not offensive at all) to 6 (Very offensive). If they answered 4 or higher, the participants had the option to state which particular words they found offensive. 
 Question: Was the degree of offensiveness taken as how generally offensive the text was, or how personally offensive it was to the annotator?
Personal thought of the annotator.