Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4257955-20150409223707/@comment-4041224-20150411091943

Bourgeoisie wrote: FortressOfNight wrote: GuacamoleCCXR wrote: Starrocks923 wrote: Avalair wrote: Voting for A is pretty selfish...

Just sayin' The purpose of voting to unblock the word Piss could be for other friends who would want to use it, but yes, the main purpose of it is for users who individually want to keep using it.

I thought that was self-explanatory, though? He's meaning to say that voting A while knowing a number of users' presence on this site depends on is the most selfish, uncivil and downright despicable way to act in this situation, and I, quite frankly, don't disagree. Not holding the interests of another person who you have never met, who lives across the world, who you only talk to sometimes, above your own is hardly "the most selfish, uncivil and downright despicable way to act in this situation". Trying to guilt trip people into changing their votes, however, may be. I have to agree with Fort. You can't expect the whole community to cater to a few users just because they have silly parents. The community has the right to vote on changes they see as beneficial. If it impedes upon a select few's interests, that's not really worth scrapping everyone else's interests for.

That would be the case if this was /only/ about blocked words. Say, those people who do suffer from it only do so because they don't want these words around. That would mean that both drawbacks and benefits from passing/blocking the vote are equal for both sides. That, however, is not the case. What you might call guilt-tripping as an appeal to reason, because valuing invective over users who have been part of the community for years is ridiculous.