Board Thread:Administrator Notice/@comment-1669199-20140104230141/@comment-24252369-20140111033916

Mystic Orb wrote: I'm not sure how often you guys use Wikitionary but here, "goddamn" is considered a swear word. As reliable and accurate as the information there is, that does not officially make it a "swear word."

What is considered "swearing" changes throughout time and place; over time some words become overused and start to become considered common, mild, and much less offensive than they used to be. Based on observed common usage and reactions of this phrase (both in reality and online), it now appears that "goddamn" is generally accepted as a mild term for expressing frustration. Some do still consider it to be swearing though, but in general people just don't seem to care or view it in the same way as words such as "sh*t, p*ss, f*ck, etc."

With so many people using it and with so little offense taken by it these days by the majority of people, making it a banned word could possibly become difficult to enforce on Users. It's not as obvious to most people not to use, compared to more vulgar words such as the ones I mentioned above.

It would be good to have a wide variety of opinios for this.