Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24839249-20160216191404/@comment-5311834-20160216230949

Harold89 wrote: Madkatmaximus wrote:

Harold89 wrote:

Madkatmaximus wrote:

Harold89 wrote:

Madkatmaximus wrote:

Benboy755 wrote:

Harold89 wrote: B). Simply because a word /can/ be used appropriately does not mean it /will be./

if people want to have a civilized discussion with this word included in it, so be it – that's no problem. As long as the conversation is appropriate (which is a rarity, knowing the average age of the community :P), and chat is scattered with a bunch of X'd lego faces, that's totally fine-- All those blocked lego faces on chat do is just notify the mods a blocked word was said. no biggie. as long as it's used in a fine way then it's really no big deal. i feel if we unblocked it, some people would feel the word is now appropriate to talk about/use (which in many cases, it is not) and would abuse that power. just because a word is unblocked doesn't mean it's okay to throw it around and use it willy-nilly, as i have seen before. plain and simple, i dont trust enough of the community to use this freedom appropriately, as many will assume all abuse this right responsibility ;)

-harold "ladies man" eighty nine use common sense about it in chat moderating? ^ ^ ^ ^ i don't know how to respond. i would like the word blocked on chat while at the same i will use common sense. plus, unblocking words leads to a general acceptance that its usage is always appropriate (which is not 100% the case), and will lead to much disruption That is not true. We unblocked the word "prostitute" and are about to unblock the words "condom" and "rape" and none of those words or the topics associated with them have become any more common than they were before, nor have they caused any sort of real trouble. well c and r aren't unblocked yet so how can you judge whether they will become more common or not? it hasnt even happened yet lol :P. in fact, i've seen the conversation about both words leak into chat due to that vote and become a controversial topic

As for "p", i disagree, ive seen it's usage go up/the topic about it go up. Rape actually was unblocked until Ale apparently blocked it again yesterday due to his weirdly legalistic habits. And of course it's being talked about while a vote is going on, such is the case for almost every vote. My point still stands.

I've only ever seen it talked about one time. ah, good on him. and yes i know, of course the vote will be discussed in chat, but it's just ironic to me that those who want its unblocking ("the word should be accepted" etc etc) are instead creating more problems and more controversy on chat

and i have seen it ("it" being the topic of the convo, not nec. the word itself) talked about many a time That could go both ways. The people opposed to it could be just as much to blame for any controversy created - if no one was opposing it, no problems would arise.

Since I've never seen this myself I has no plce to comment on it, then. That said; if it was in a main chat appropriate context and not disrupting chat I would wonder why it would be a problem.