Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24561237-20140810223709/@comment-24150879-20140811213744

MsD wrote: Basil Karlo wrote:

Goggles99 wrote:

Basil Karlo wrote:

Goggles99 wrote: No. Why? Because "retard" is not an official term for any form of intellectual disability. It's really only used jokingly (or not jokingly) as an insult these days. It's not like saying "autistic" or "bipolar" or "cancer victim" or "muslim". I assure you there is no doctor in the world that would actually classify anyone as being a "retard". If you forgot your car keys or wore you jacket inside out though, there are many people who will in friendly jest call you retard along with other words like idiot or silly or dumb...these are all harmless words that have the potential to be used wrongly. There is nothing wrong with the words themselves. Also the last thing this wiki needs is more silly rules that do nothing but create more difficulty for the mods and more drama. I've never seen anyone here called a retard in a literal way that they can take offense to.

Keep it simple. Punish a user for attacking or bullying another user. Don't punish them for the particular words that they may or may not have used in their attack. Bullies will ALWAYS find a way to insult. Blocking a word like that will not help anyone. If it's not an official medical term, that means there is no good context to use it in and just provides more reason for blocking it. So what you're saying is that we should censor "idiot" and "moron" as well, because they're never used in good context? Those were unblocked more than a year ago for a reason.

When used by a non-malicious user on this chat, those words are used to play along with one another (as miakittymoon would call it, "fun-spam"). There's nothing wrong with that. And as Goggs said, the malicious users abusing those words will always find a way around it, so it makes no sense to block it. It's like putting a wooden fence around a pizza to prevent hungry children from getting to it. It's not gonna stop them for one second. I like that analogy. Now I'm hungry.