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    Tree Killer Senior Member Beirut's Avatar
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    Default Re: Allow innocuous usage of f-word!

    My Frontroom jihad is aimed directly at swearing. My policy, as far as BKS allows it, is ruthless zero tolerance for swearing.

    The way I see it, and as I have explained it to several members, there are 85,769,341,452 sites that allow swearing. The Frontroom does not. If you feel the overwhelming urge to say ****, then go to the bathroom, look deeply into the mirror and say it as many times as you like. Your freedom is absolute.

    But in the Frontroom.... no swearing. Is it really that much of a burden for people to abstain from writing **** in a public post? If so, then a weak mind is the only excuse.
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    Default Re: Allow innocuous usage of f-word!

    Quote Originally Posted by Beirut
    My Frontroom jihad is aimed directly at swearing. My policy, as far as BKS allows it, is ruthless zero tolerance for swearing.

    The way I see it, and as I have explained it to several members, there are 85,769,341,452 sites that allow swearing. The Frontroom does not. If you feel the overwhelming urge to say ****, then go to the bathroom, look deeply into the mirror and say it as many times as you like. Your freedom is absolute.

    But in the Frontroom.... no swearing. Is it really that much of a burden for people to abstain from writing **** in a public post? If so, then a weak mind is the only excuse.
    I fully support the .org on this. There is no CAUSE to swear for any reason. Ever. I don't care what you are trying to express, there is a fully competent analog that can be used in polite company. Any expletive is extraneous, that is part of the definition of expletive.

    ex·ple·tive: An exclamation or oath, especially one that is profane, vulgar, or obscene.

    A word or phrase that does not contribute any meaning but is added only to fill out a sentence or a metrical line.
    Linguistics. A word or other grammatical element that has no meaning but is needed to fill a syntactic position, such as the words it and there in the sentences It's raining and There are many books on the table.
    To be honest, a fully crack down on anything considered vulgar wouldn't bother me a bit, but it might bug some other people. Not allowing swearing is good policy considering that it helps keep the forums at a much higher level than the other forums I frequent.

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    Remember the age range 10 to 80.

    So if you find it okay to say the f word in front of your niece, grandma and pastor then I think you belong to a very unusual strata of society.
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