Board Thread:The Seven Seas Court/@comment-4093783-20150529021648

In the past, requests have been made to allow unrestricted swearing; the rationale people often put forth to justify these requests are that we are no longer a wiki affiliated exclusively with PotCO content. While this rationale seems justified to an extent, I don't think it alone is enough of a reason to jump from allowing some swear words to allowing all swear words. Today, I come to you with a similar request in a more moderate way; allow the censored use of the f-word and the s-word.

While we are no longer a wiki affiliated entirely with a Disney game, I don't think this in it of itself is enough of a rationale to justify this, so here is my own reasoning as to why this should be permitted:

We already allow these swears and more in chat, just indirectly'''. '''A person using chat can link almost anything that isn't pornographic so long as they post "warning" at the end of the link. While some may say that this doesn't matter because there's a warning on the post and we aren't using the words ourselves. However, by linking these things, we are still exposing the people in chat to these words, even if they have to click the link provided to access them.

We all have seen these words before and have the ability to handle them'''. '''They're in the links we put in chat with a "warning" label at the end. We use them practically everywhere else in excess; we've become accustomed to using these words already and most of us can obviously handle using them. Some may argue that we don't have the capability to handle using these words, to which I say: look at how we've handled every other word legalized; crap, damn, ass, etc. Sure, people have come along from time to time who abuse the already-legalized words, but they're dealt with accordingly; it's not as if the admins and moderators can't handle people who just spam the bad words or use them in an insulting manner. Additionally, some may also argue the possibility that a younger person, such as a ten year-old child, may stumble across our wiki and be exposed to these kinds of words. To this, I say that wikia's terms of use prohibits anybody younger than thirteen to join the wiki; any risk and problems associated with making an account on wikia whilst being underaged should be entirely placed upon the maker of the account, not the people who expose said person to inappropriate content.

'''These words are allowed on pages, uncensored (albeit with a banner to notify readers beforehand). '''The bold heading says it all. These words and others can be used, uncensored, on pages, although the author has to put a swearing banner at the top to notify readers. Some argue that this is okay because using the words this way is a productive use for them, which I wholeheartedly agree with. Regardless of whether or not this is a productive use of these swear words, it's still a use of them, meaning people who read the story are still exposed to them.

Some may automatically reject a few of these points, noting that there is some kind of "warning" or "barrier" before a person is able to access certain swear words on the wiki. Yes, this is very true, which is why I'm proposing we only allow these two swear words in their censored forms.

I also expect these censored forms to be very strict, only allowing the f-word to be censored in the form of "f***" and for the s-word to be censored in the form of "s***". These strict censors, only allowing the reader to see one letter of each word, is, at the very least, a perfectly decent way of blocking them off from the words in a similar fashion to the warnings that chat links must have and the swear banners that pages must have.

I implore you to consider my proposal, as I think the fear of allowing these swear words is completely irrational, and any problems they may cause can easily be remedied with kicks and bans to the offenders. Thank you.

 