Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-3416945-20150112204618/@comment-4533965-20150112221634

So a user wants to get rid of swearing, yet he openly admitted that he swears a lot offsite and has even been seen swearing in the wiki? How hypocritical.

That's besides the point though. If we're talking about banning swearing all together on the wiki, then yeah, I'm all for it (as long as we keep damn, hell, piss, and goddamn (I'll get to this shortly)). Because that's where children usually view the website.

On chat, however, I completely oppose. Chat is where thirteen year-olds and older can (hopefully) discuss civil topics like drugs and such in a mature manner. I think we're all mature enough to swear at the right times and not on the actual wiki frame. Removing swearing all together on chat is where I draw the line. It would completely screw up the new rule of allowing us to link videos with swearing, as well as restrict us from showing our full emotions on situations. I feel like you're trying to mold the wiki to something it shouldn't, and that the more steps we take to restrict ourselves, the more steps we take to making the chat pointless, and having users resort to other means.

"God damn" on the other hand has always been a huge problem on the wiki, and no matter what we do, there's always someone who complains about it. I don't want the term gone, but if we can't ever agree on allowing it or abolishing it, then I'm all for it's removal. Although, quite honestly, there's nothing wrong with it. Besides, why does someone who admitted they don't practice beliefs in God saying we should remove it? That's a bit of an oddball suggestion.

Like I said, I completely support banning swearing on the main wiki (as long as it's censored, I'm fine with it), but I oppose on banning it from chat.

- 22:16, January 12, 2015 (UTC)