User blog comment:Parax./Community Vote: Ass/@comment-4219405-20120804152203

I am a fan of writing fictional stories on this Wiki (naturally about British persons/soldiers/battles) and for those of you who tend to read historical fiction from this time period, you will notice the word "ass" is, albeit only occasionally, used against the men of the lower ranks (see the Hornblower or Sharpe Series). I am also a fan of writing like the authors of those two series do, and so would like to use the word on Wiki pages. Same story with "damn" and "bastard" they were used in history and so I am fine with them being used in historically based pages.

However, quite frankly, our chat members tend to become a little excessive in swearing, and take the ability to use them for granted. Allowing this word would simply make our Wiki more immature. As Goldvane said below, it is inevitable (judging by this Wiki's experience with swearing on chat) that eventually a user here thats a little more crazy than usual will say the word in an inapropriate way.

So weighing those two reasons equally, I would say neutral. But, I am constantly writing stories on pages and occasionally joining chat, so my first reason for me outweighs the second. So, but I would strongly prefer it to be only used on pages, not in comments or chat.