Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
Swear words in a discussion are ugly. They can have a point in some kinds of discussion, but for the kinds of discussion in the Backroom, they have no point at all.
There's a balance here. A swearword can underline a hardness of a comment, and that's sometimes important.

On the other hand, swearwords draw a lot of the readers attention, which can make the points being made unclear and forgotten.