[wp-forums] profanity on the forums

[Otto]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Jess Cullinan <jess.cullinan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reading the last bozo'ed thread and other rather abusive threads around the
> forum, I am curious as to why there is no guideline published about the use
> of profanity in the WP forums.
>
> Any insights on this? Was it something that was decided specifically?
>
> I personally find the occasional damn or hell to be fine when expressing
> frustration, but anything stronger than that, particularly when it is aimed
> at insulting a person, seems to me to be very inappropriate in this context.

I trust the moderators to be human beings capable of using common
sense and dealing with profanity in an appropriate way. Sometimes this
means deleting a post. Sometimes this means doing the star*****
editing. Sometimes this means being particularly snarky back.
Whatever, we're mature adults, and I don't think a specific set of
hard-rules is conducive to people using their brains properly.

The fewer rules, the better, IMO. As long as we are a volunteer
project, then we have to rely on the intelligence of the volunteers.
I'm cool with that.

-Otto