Forum:Partially Uplifting The Censor Rule

First things first, this is a chat-related forum. It is up to the admins as to whether this affects the rest of the wiki, and even whether it is put into place at all. Anyways, over the summer a new rule was added that worse like "fuk" and "cnt" are banned and counted as self-censoring. I am not proposing that swearing in general should be allowed, I am entirely against that for a number of reasons, but I do believe that the previously mentioned words are less brutal than actual swearing. I mean, as stupid as it sounds, I read "fuk" in a different tone than "fuck". Don't even get me started on 'bish' vs 'bitch' and 'shiz' vs 'shit'. And abbreviated swearing is still allowed, clearly. I think that's one of the things that we should never take away.

Now, this isn't actual swearing, but I'm still not gonna say "no one is going to abuse it" or "we can just take it away if it gets out of hand". The first statement is without evidence and the second statement would be bogus in some cases because saying that usually means it WILL get out of hand. But the censoring rule I am referring to was made stricter due to a series of drama and arguments that have long since been resolved, to my knowledge. I agree that it was a right decision to make, but I think this majority of the wiki has moved on some then. The wiki has allowed such words to be used in the past and it didn't get out of hand (until the drama that got it taken away).

And then there's the abuse thing. If someone says "fuk" way too much then it would count under the guidelines of spam or potentially irritating other users, as would any word, if a warning is given. If someone uses 'fuk' to harass someone then it counts, like any other word in the case of verbal abuse, as harassment.

To make this clear, words like "fuk" and "cnt" are the ones affected. Words like "fuck" and "f*ck" and "f***" will still be banned.

I respect all opinions on this, so feel free to leave them. I clearly can't control ALL of you, but please do not take this to chat unless it is a civil discussion rather than an argument (if you don't know what a civil discussion means or how to have one then you probably shouldn't even bother mentioning it).

Also, I am terribly sorry for the swearing in this, but I used them necessarily for forum-related purposes to get the point across.