Does my signature, or the 'S word' offend anybody here?

[Dayve]

Except for this forum, right? Because i see two signatures in this thread that violate forum rules, which leads me to believe this part of the forum is an exception.

Also if you can quote me on where i have used swear words in an offensive way towards anybody or anything in this forum, that'd be great. Thanks.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

"foreskin" and "pissing" are allowed, the f word is not. Surely it's not to much hassle?

[Kralizec]

Wasn't there a member called Danny 4skin who was forced to change his name?

[Dayve]

So it's alright for a child to look over his mothers/fathers shoulder and read "I have a new hobby, retracting my foreskin" or whatever TF it is, but not a joke from Family Guy?

That's piss.

[Fragony]

That's piss.

No that is body waste in liquid form.

[Andres]

We've had a lot of similar threads recently. It's getting boring.



If I recall it right, the wanrings always say something like :

"If you have an issue, you can always PM the staff"

Staff = in the first place the moderator concerned, and if you can't sort it out, one of the other moderators of that particular forum or you can always adress yourself to the Big Boss Tosa. If you still can't come to an agreement, you have 2 possibilities: a) accept or b) leave).

But the appropriate way is through PM

[econ21]

But the appropriate way is through

Indeed, but you probably don't want to see the PMs Davye has already sent me and an Admin. Makes his contributions in this thread sound like Julie Andrews.

BTW: Davye - FYI, there's no "piss" allowed in the M2TW forum. We don't have a centrally approved list of "acceptable" or "unacceptable" swearwords at the Org. Each moderator uses their own judgement. Mine is a zero tolerance policy. Just so you know.

[Redleg]

Except for this forum, right? Because i see two signatures in this thread that violate forum rules, which leads me to believe this part of the forum is an exception.

Also if you can quote me on where i have used swear words in an offensive way towards anybody or anything in this forum, that'd be great. Thanks.

If you believe the signature violates one of the rules of the forum - report it to the adminstrator. If a moderator or the adminstrator of this site decides my signature violates the rules - then I will change the signature, because that is what is required if I wish to post at this site, which has its rules to insure that the owners of the site don't have legal issues.

The rules clearly state. "Posts containing any generally objectionable material: knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. Posting of copyrighted material, unless the copyright is owned by you or by The Guild, is discouraged. The Guild expects its patrons to remain civil even in the face of disagreements. Any kind of "flaming", slurs or insults adressed to an individual or a group is extremely inappropriate. Please respect etiquette at all times.
"

There are words that are in the grey area of acceptablity. Then there are words that clearly violate the forum rules. The word "piss" just happens to fall into that area. So since you find the word unacceptable the polite thing would be to either modify the signature or even change it. So a slight modification still protrays the meanin of the orginal word and "cleans" the way it was stated into a more polite form of the orginal meaning. ie - not a big deal to change a signature,

Now if a moderator informed me that they find the signature to be in violation of the forum rules - instead of going to the watchtower to make a public embrassement of myself for my choice of words - I would quietly just change the signature, because if a moderator informed me that the word is inapporiate.

There are things to protest about in the way some things are moderated in any site, but this is not one of them.

[drone]

Except for this forum, right? Because i see two signatures in this thread that violate forum rules, which leads me to believe this part of the forum is an exception.

Also if you can quote me on where i have used swear words in an offensive way towards anybody or anything in this forum, that'd be great. Thanks.

Signatures are visible in all fora, not just the Backroom. So I'm assuming that whatever you put in your signature needs to be appropriate for all fora that you have ever posted in, and any that you wish to post into in the future.

[Kralizec]

There's a checkbox for that in the reply window, if unchecked your sig will not be displayed. It's checked by default.

[Vuk]

What the F#ck!! No swearing!! Oh, well...It's not like I give a Sh%t!

lol



Mod: Forum rules say nothing about censored swears ;)

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Yes they do actually, they aren't allowed. Astericks all the way: ****

[caravel]

If partially censored profanity isn't allowed in the backroom then it's most definitely not going to be allowed elsewhere.

[Ludens]

Just because the forum rules doesn't mention censored swearwords doesn't mean it is allowed. In fact, because it doesn't mention censored swearwords they count as normal ones. Also, several fora have stickies explaining that partialy censoring swearwords doesn't make a difference. We can still see which words you mean, so what's the point of allowing them?

[Stig]

Aye if I use this word f***, you know what I mean. If I call you a c*** you know what I mean. This is just as offensive as anything else, personally I prefer swearing to be censored into this: %$#@

[Kekvit Irae]

Partially censored words are still a no-no in the Guides forums.

The org has a strict no swearing policy, and it will be enforced here with an iron fist. We have a widely varied membership, consisting of many ages and cultures; many members have children. Therefore a PG language level is aimed at. If *s are used they must blot out the entire word with not a single letter left, or they will be treated the same as an uncensored word.

Enter the Guides forum and swear at your own risk. I WILL be watching.