Re: [BNW] Call for discussion, re: Vulgarity

["William Davis" <williamjdavis@hotmail.com>]

Hmmm.... I would come down on the side of swear/curse words being verboten. 
I mean you can be plenty offensive without using them if that is your goal. 
Shocking is easy without once using a vulgar word. This is a discussion 
group of people who are mostly strangers. I don't know about you but I don't 
stand in the middle of a group of strangers and curse up a storm. Maybe a 
little more relaxed among friends, but definately not among 'company'. If 
you know what I mean. The net has an 'anonimity' factor that seems to 
encourage people to revert to their 'basest' characteristics. It is a pet 
peeve of mine that courtesy should be maintained regardless of the medium.
   That said; 'in character' descriptions and stories would be silly to edit 
for vulgarity. It wouldn't get your character/story across properly for the 
hardened rebel defiant to curse the prime agent with a "Golly, gosh, 
gee-whiz" type statement. I think maybe gratuitous vulgarity should be 
discourage (like a rules argument that degenerates to name calling), while 
making people posting 'in character' stories or arguments tag their subject 
line with a warning. Like a movie rating or something. That way you aren't 
denying a forum for more 'colorful' stories (the censorship angle), and 
people who don't want to read that sort of thing can just hit delete or set 
up an autosort to filter them out. Let people do their own censorship.


From: "Allan 'Deputy' Seyberth" <moderator@darious.com>
Reply-To: bnw@gamerz.net
To: hoe@gamerz.net, lc@gamerz.net, bnw@gamerz.net
Subject: [BNW]  Call for discussion, re: Vulgarity
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:52:55 -0700

 >See.. that leads back into the 'what
 >words are vulgar' arguement, because in New Zealand, 'twat' is a
 >mildly-derogitory word for someone you want to kind-of hassle, but don't
 >actually hate or dislike either, kind of a friendly insult, if you know 
what
 >I mean.

On that note - I've been thinking about asking folks whether the current
policy toward vulgarity is acceptable?

The policy is that vulgarity is not welcome, but only repeated and/or
abusive usage will get you knocked off of the list.

The point is that we are all (ideally) mature enough to handle it, and it
smacks of censorship.

The counter-point is that we are all (ideally) intelligent enough to get
our point across without the use of vulgarity, and certain usage is frankly
offensive while serving no useful purpose except for shock value.
Allan 'Deputy' Seyberth
moderator@darious.com

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