Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-7091122-20160526014234/@comment-24760547-20160527164154

ThisUserLikesOreo wrote:

Gargantuar333 wrote:

Pinkgirl234 wrote:

Gargantuar333 wrote:

ThisUserLikesOreo wrote: People, "s**t" is banned word. You can't use it without censoring it. That's stupid. It's one thing if you're using it offensively towards someone, it's completely different if it's used as an example. That makes my warning even more bullsh*t (look, it's censored, chill).

Plus, sl*t and wh*re aren't even that bad of words. I honestly don't even consider them swear words. And now you can't even tell whether you're talking about sh*t or sl*t (thanks to you censoring it as s**t), thanks to that censorship. Wait what's wrong about censoring words? I have seen thread replies getting removed whenever a user does not censor a swear word. Censoring words isn't stupid. That has some logic behind it. I was talking about censoring sl*t and wh*re, and how illogical my warning is. MediaWiki:Badwords Half of these aren't even really swear words.

And making a list of them is also really dumb, seeing as anyone can take any existing swear word and modify it a bit, and voilà, instant new swear word! Can't we just leave it up to the user to determine what's a swear word and what's not (to a certain extent, of course)?

I mean, homo? Really? You're going to assert that is a swear word, when there are a number of other contexts from which it can be used in a non insulting matter, especially if you're talking about gay and lesbian people? Like, if I say homo, that's going to be categorized as swear, while homosexual, which means the SAME THING, only with a slightly negative connotation, is fine. Hell, we could be talking about science and homo sapiens!

Look, all I'm saying is that we need to re-evaluate this whole swearing censorship thing. Right now swear words are getting blocked regardless of the reasoning behind them, and we need to fix this so examples can be stated in a logical manner.

P.S. Who came up with the swear list? I haven't heard half of those words before in my life, and I know a LOT more than I should.