Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20170412045049/@comment-27441478-20170415041759

Genesjs wrote:

P.S.: Also, be careful of what language you use on the forums, or anywhere that can be easily seen by the public at large. Language policy is against swearing and all that. I personally don't mind it, but as long as this particular policy exists than I and the other Admins/Mods gotta enforce it whenever necessary. And I'm sure you'd rather people focus on what you're actually saying rather than just focusing on a few words you say in a sentence or two. Swearing in private messaging on the Wiki chat and the Discord chats is fine (the Discord chat is enforced differently than the Wiki chat, so you can get away with more stuff there), as long as all parties consent to it in the case of the former. So, yeah, just think twice about what you say. You're free to disagree with the policy -- just remember that it's there, and that there's others who take it's enforcement very seriously. I checked through my quote again and I see no curse words?

I checked the Wikia policy again and it only species a few words which may considered sensitive, but it appears that I have used in a context which does not cross any red lines.

Another issue is that that particular policy is way too subjective to be implemented. Who or what decides what is or what is not a curse word? The wikia policy fails to provide a detail list of what words are not allowed to be used so that users would know what or what not to say. Another issue is that a particular word used in the exact same context are accepted differently between nations. The word 'bloody' may be considered offensive for some English speakers (American? I forgot) but may be considered not offensive to others (United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand?) which its offensiveness equates to the same as the word 'idiot'.

Note that some 'offensive' words also carry multiple synonyms and connotations which are not considered offensive but mean the same thing and can be used other than an insult or to offend.

The 'n' word is obviously not allowed to be used due to the fact it carries no other contexual or connotational use other than to insult, whilst the words 'feces' 'crap' and 's**' mean the same thing and have different contextual/connotatonal uses other than to insult, difference is one or two of them are somehow more offensive the other. Its arbitrary.

Point is, the wikia policy should be more specific about certain rules, or else it would be difficult to follow and enforce.

You should be giving me warnings on curse words when I use them outside of the provided context and connotations (eg. to insult) which I so happen to have not done, so why did you warn me?