Board Thread:Wiki General Discussion/@comment-25407271-20161218203919/@comment-5645428-20161220101101

I'd like to extend this discussion to include distinction between staff and regular users. Should a position of responsibility and influence affect how staff select their use of language?

Clarification should also made between specific types of profanity. Geovaporizer gave an insight response on the poll thread that I'd like to share: After some research, I have found that swears are typically broken up into 3 categories: sacrilegious, scatological, and sexually vulgar. Anything that fits under the "sexually vulgar" category should be banned, obviously. However sacrilegious & scatological swears are a bit different.

Anything sacrilegious should be allowed as long as it's not used to deliberately mock a religion or someone that is religious. "Goddamn," for example, should be allowed (if not directed towards someone) although it's sacrilegious.

The usage of scatological swears should be permitted to a certain extent. Saying "Crap, I got 94% on ___" is no reason to punish someone. But other rather extreme swears that belong to this category is most definitely a reason for punishment.

I think we can all agree upon his stance towards sexually vulgar and sacrilegious (this should extend to also cover racial slurs) profanities. I believe what scatological swears are permitted may be confusing some people.