Forum:Cutting Down on Swearing

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Can we specify what to not allow into the website please. I know swear words are not allowed but what if people are repeatedly calling things gay etc. I may be wrong though. Should we define what is profanity and "crap" stuff we don't need on the site, or has it already been said somewhere else already on the site. so it's easy to know when to ghost seeing as I'm nearly always on the site a few hours before any admins come on? Testostereich • (ballsack)

Heres an example that happend just this very morning, the word gay is repeatedly used as a kind of attempt at humour juice I guess: Ad Hominem

Hmm, this article needs modifying/deleting as it seems to contain an attack on gays. It could also be an attack on the reader, I suppose. Swings and roundabouts. BUT I'm tired of all this anti-gay stuff. Seems as though a lot of these editors are from the Westboro Baptist Church.

As for swearing, we need to have a specific policy I think. I don't think it should be completely outlawed but why swear when there are funnier and stupider alternatives? Look to cruddy B-movies. Fishface. Cheeseball. Dung beetle. Soupmush. Crumb bum. Etc. -- Hindleyak  Converse • ?blog • Click here! 11:00, 21 Yoon 2007 (UTC)

There is this, which I'd say gives a pretty good guideline, though it seems to be insufficiently clear and concrete given the existence of this issue. Feel free to polish it up and put in some sensible guidelines covering more specific areas of the issue. And perhaps some additional note on the Keep it civil policy making it clear that the lack of requirement of political correctness does not make barrages of bashing okay. --The Divine Fluffalizer 16:14, 21 Yoon 2007 (UTC)

Comical alternatives are always fun, i might include a few in new articles now. What's the reference to Westboro Baptist Church about. Is it an attack on baptists or is it a particularly evil church because i'm a baptist myself. i wikipedia'd the church, sounds evil. Testostereich • (ballsack)

I added a new template to the trash section Debate which you could put on offensive articles that need to be censored/ modified or deleted. Testostereich • (ballsack)

A nice addition to the set - I reworked the box and polished the text of the trash category page. --The Divine Fluffalizer 16:14, 21 Yoon 2007 (UTC)