Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4533965-20140627203708/@comment-1669199-20140702213449

Toxice wrote: Genesjs wrote: Brony Sponge Penguin + Sonic wrote: Shoutmon23 wrote: I'd be more strict on the profanity rule. Any swearing will result in a block Crap isn't cussing. Neither is bullcrap.

Agreed. Other people's mileage may vary, I know, but I seriously don't understand why these two words count as profanity. Crap is just... crap. Same with bullcrap. If people are gonna be sensitive about even words such as these, then either one of two things needs to happen: Either we come to an agreement once and for all what words don't count as actual profanity, or we should ban everything that could be even remotely passed off as profanity -- period. The second option... is barely an option, at all. That would make communication over the borderlands strict as a social community.

Personally, I am totally against the idea of implementing the second option. Its pretty much the only semi-reasonable option I could come up with besides the first one, which I'm much more favorable towards. I doubt anyone else would want to use my second option, either. Hence why I'm hoping that, when it comes to the profanity aspect of this discussion, everyone here can make up their minds on what we should and shouldn't allow to be said on the chat (and preferably the rest of the Wiki as well, as it would not make sense to not implement such changes on only the chat room policies) -- choose the first option, as it were.

Besides, as I previously stated, if we're gonna have people who'll take offense to virtually any word that could be seen as swearing, and if our objective at this time is still to make a user-friendly community, then we'll either need to take extreme measures to make everyone happy (which is impossible to do, looking at things realistically), or we make a new consensus on this matter. In other words, take either the extreme but easy route, or go the extra mile to come up with something that works.