Is the acceptance of profanity into our language good?

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I think it's fairly well known that the censor can be bypassed but doing so would not be a good idea, because it would be seen as a deliberate attempt at breaking the rules and would be dealt with accordingly.
It's possible, with the aim of providing better consistency, for the rules enacted through the auto-censor to be extended to cover swearwords in images too.

You've still not answered my actual question, Cornflake.

If discussing fetishes is against the rules but that rule is applied more leniently in the adult section, why can't the same happen with swear words?

I look forward to the time when profanity finally becomes fully accepted.

They're just words. If you are offended by a word you need to take a serious look at yourself and find out why a small collection of letters can mess with your head so much.

There is a strong body of evidence that points to therapeutic results from swearing. The clearest evidence is the relationship between swearing and pain tolerance. But there are also some inquiries into the relationship between swearing and stress.

That being said, however, many psychologists believe that its therapeutic benefits lie with the emotional connection to swearing--the more familiar the word becomes, the less the emotional impact, and the less benefit.

But then we'll turn around and find another one.

Exactly.



Exactly x2.

Because the auto-censor is consistent and not open to personal interpretation.

Bit inconsistent, isn't it? To let people slightly bend one family friendly type rule in the section just for adults, but not do the same for another? Using the operation of a forum script as a reason seems a bit flimsy in my opinion.

hear him, hear him!

Elsewhere you were complaining about the way some of the rules were open to interpretation, and now you're being shown how a consistent rule is being applied you want it to be more open to interpretation.
You accept one "rule bend", allowed through a personal interpretation, because it's what you want to see but reject another rule which isn't open to personal interpretation because it's not what you want to see.
What you appear to want is inconsistent consistency, but I expect even you can see the conflict here.

In the thread you are referring to, I also spoke of how the moderators should, IMHO, only apply rules when they are needed rather than taking any chance they can to catch people. In recent days, I have been on the receiving end of the latter behaviour, and leaving the bashing of a certain mod who may or may not have a grudge against me aside, I think it's an inefficient way to run a forum, and it ultimately frustrates usually rule following, legitimate long term members, as well as newbies and pretty much everyone else.

I for one say just remove the language filter in any area that could be expected to be populated mainly by adults.

Censorship is a plague, it spreads until it consumes all.

Damn straight.

we could be stricter with how much we censor fetish discussion - it has more grey area than swears do. there is a sharp dividing line with swears because the swear filter establishes a strict guideline. fetish talk requires more of a judgement call in each instance.

we aren't going to go in the opposite direction and be more lenient with swears, but we could be stricter wth fetish talk. are you asking us to be stricter in that area? it's kind of hard to get to the root of what you want from us because before you were complaining that we moderated threads about fetishes, and now you seem to want us to be stricter with that.

I'm asking for the very opposite, hyper.

ahhhhh ok. i was just curious what you were getting at. if alex coded an exception in the Adult forum, so that swears were no longer filtered at all, we would allow them on pictures too. it is probably counterproductive for you to point out how non-explicit fetish discussion is overlooked, because if members (or alex) start to notice and complain, we would need to crack down and be less permissive.

Heres the thing rules are ultimately left to be interpreted by mods and while we think that a small amount of fetish discussion can be benefitial for the site since it allows a certain discussion that is interesting to some members none of us can see a benefit from allowing swearing.

Could you please point me out an example where swearing would be benefitial for this site beyond pictures that can be found almost on every other forum if a member was interested on looking them up?
I´m more than willing to reconsider my position if you do so and Im sure the other mods are as well but so far profanity seems to be used to attack other members and to post pictures that we find tasteless and are against the rules(and I dont think our personal opinion on them is going to change anytime soon) so we are trying to remind members that the rules are against that.

This rules where that way when you signed up and you agreed to them(wether you read them or not doesnt matter because you claimed you read them in order to sign up) so I dont see why you have a problem with mods enforcing the rules you agreed to.

Last edited by spongy on 16 Jan 2012, 5:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.