Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-4548659-20141016234340/@comment-1669199-20141118000128

MrBreada wrote: You know my opinion on this? They're words. The fact that they're considered "curse words", is STUPID! You are declining people from expanding their vocabulary.

Also, '''the chat is restricted from access by those under 13. '''So,  WHY are you restricting words that 13-year-olds are okay with hearing? You guys are acting like 12 year olds go on the chat. And even then, 10 or YOUNGER kids cuss!

If by expanding your vocabuary, you mean potentially giving young children the ability to sound more crass and vulgar at a younger age, then yes, I suppose it would be. Ever heard of "mannerisms"? Mannerisms, along with politeness, is something we strongly encourage because this site would be a complete mess if no one could get along and sounded like a bunch of social rejects trying to sound tough by swearing 80% of the time -- going by your suggestion wouldn't exactly help us sound like we have an ounce of mannerisms. Furthermore, we ARE a Wiki that is about a children's franchise, so making no attempt to sound unvulgar and polite wouldn't fare well for us in the long run because such behavior tends to not only turn younger audiences with their parents supervising away, it would attract only individuals who act in such ways all the time -- vulgar, impolite, crass. Naturally, I would think it'd be reasonable to conclude that any caring parent would want to make sure that their kids are going to websites that actually look like they're being run by sensible, sound-of-mind people who don't need to swear every other sentence for no other reason than for the sake of doing so, because that's what many of them are going to assume if they see us acting that way on our forums -- most of them can't be bothered to look into things deeper than that.

Children under 13 can be allowed to surf the Internet as long as they're being supervised by an adult -- the Children's Internet Protection Act doesn't forbid them from being able to use the Internet altogether.