Board Thread:Wiki General Discussion/@comment-5428123-20130724094003/@comment-6021747-20131007183654

My two cents:

I think that for the most part (and I would say that "most" would probably be 90+%), the community here does a fantastic job of censoring themselves. I do it. Congo does it. Cari does it (most of the time). ALL the major contributors do, even in blogs.

We censor ourselves when you use charcaters to replace letters ($&*, etc), so that the emotional context is still conveyed while not actually typing out the entire word. Another example would be, to use Jason's example, "That card is F-ing awesome!". Everyone knows what you mean, but you understand that the full word can be offensive. The majority of the community understands this, and when will usually report those that are in violation of self censorship when it crosses the lines.

Who set those lines, though? Society. And our little community here is a society of it's own, and if I had to guess, I would imagine that the majority of the community is of an age where the grew up in a society that still had a moral compass that followed the Golden Rule, hence why the swearing issue in excess is a limited problem, from what I've seen.

Beboper, Wikia already has rules in place that violate the ToS, so there really isn't a need to post a new set of guidelines. When someone is in violation, give them a warning, and if they continue, hit 'em with the hammer.

I just don't think that we need to make mountains out of molehills, here.