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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner
I keep saying that because it is the truth and you don't do anything wrong. If the rules are strict and you enforce them, you can hardly be blamed.
I don't complain about you - I just like to bitch about Subsim's rules as I believe they are way too strict. It makes perfect sense to keep this place rather clean, but handing out infractions for someone "masking" words, I mean...what? That doesn't make any sense at all.
If I say F... ! and get punished for it, I don't feel it is justified. Because this abbreviation could mean a lot. Of course it means something specific - but if a person knows that anyways, like the always mentioned children (what child browses this board!?), I wonder why it is still a problem when a kid knows these words anyways (and kids today do... except maybe home-schooled and living in isolation... sooooo... home-schooled).
What if I say "N-Word"? Is that infraction-worthy as well because I 'masked' a bad word? Well then how could one ever talk about this? One could never post in the GT section stuff like "Wow, today at the gas station that lady went apes.... (see?) and threw lots of n-words around just because bla bla... story ends..."
*infraction!*
Maybe I'm missing something, but from my PoV this kind of rule doesn't make any sense at all and reminds me of this 911 dispatcher who repeatedly hung up on a young girl calling in because her dad had a heart attack - because she said "f......g" at the start of the conversation, not knowing she is already through.
Just my 2 cents on this derailment (sorry for that... but I feel this is rather important)
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I get a lot of flack from some people over my attempts to minimize vulgar language in the forum. Other people appreciate the effort to keep a level of class and civility in a public forum. Are the rules strict, or is it a matter of taste?
It's the "one man's art is another man's trash" argument, I guess. I just want to keep this place a little classier than a YouTube or Live Leak comment section, you know.
Social morality is in a long, sad slide, I don't want to contribute to it.
I mean, should there be any limits to how we conduct ourselves, or should Howard Stern and Miley Cyrus be our guides?
