Board Thread:Administrator Notice/@comment-26567650-20141214052515/@comment-26567650-20141219042754

Myself 123 wrote: While we're talking about the chat policy, I would like to bring something up that some people on chat are bothered by: What's wrong with giving out a descprition of the the said link? I wouldn't just link something and expect people to click it without knowing what it is. It adds context. For example: if everyone was talking about Smash Bros. and I link something totally unrelated, people would automatically assume it's a link related to Smash Bros, but it isn't. If I provided a description, then people would understand it wasn't a link about Smash.
 * 1) Giving descriptions for links. We've had this rule for awhile now, but many mods/admins keep forgetting about it and therefore it hasn't been enforced until recently. Personally, I think the rule should be dropped completely, nothing bad has come as a result of doing this and users are not allowed to link things that go against policy anyway, so the rule seems pointless.
 * 2) Censorship of swearwords. A couple of Admins/Chat Mods have recently been asking users to censor the whole word as oppose to just censoring a couple of letters. Again, I feel this is pointless as most people can tell what the censored word is through context alone, so if a person is offended by the thought of a swear word censoring the entire word would do nothing to change that. Additionally, the rules do not state that the entire word needs to be censored.

The censor whole swearing rule on the other hand is there because we aren't suppose to be swearing anyway, so censoring the whole word would do instead of specific letters or just 1 letter. Just think of the loopholes, ******** could instead be sh*thole. Then what's the point of the swearing rule if we just censor only...1 letter?