Board Thread:Administrator Notice/@comment-1669199-20140104230141/@comment-24252369-20140107044033

What about the changes on television in recent years?

On most channels that are supposedly intended for famies to watch, what used to be minor censored words are now being uncensored and modern mainstream society seems to be seeing them as no longer qualifying as "swear words".

I'm refering to minor words such as "ass", "damn" (which has been used in Sonic games), "hell", etc. Usage of these 3 in particular are no longer considered swearing by the media, so these kids you're worried about would be hearing them a lot on common TV channels these days anyway if not here.

Also, considering that the minimum user age here is 13, I highly doubt any 13 year old with access to the internet would "learn these 3 words and other minor ones for the first time" on this wiki. Many years ago I attended an American middle school and the things they were saying there was '''much worse. They were legitimately swearing.'''

My suggestion would be to have a list in the chat rules page with the few minor words (that are no longer cosidered swearing by mainstream media) that may be used only in the chat and only when not used to insult or attck other users (that way there is minimum chance of anyone feeling offended) All other serious and real swearwords could be unpermitted as a chat rule.