Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26346910-20161003012823/@comment-26944420-20161003233653

Rapmilo wrote:

Keplers wrote:

Rapmilo wrote:

Keplers wrote:

Rapmilo wrote:

Alemas2005 wrote:

AmazingPythor wrote:

Slicer Vorzakh wrote: for the consistency people, how about we keep this unblocked and unblock lmao? If "wtf" and "lmao" were unblocked I would certainly have a different opinion. But they both contain swears which are currently blocked...

So we would need unblock votes for the f-word and a-word.

Which already failed fairly recently. That's what I don't get. Why are abbreviations treated differently then the words they represent?

If the a-word is blocked all derivatives and abbreviations of that word should be blocked as well. This would make the policy much simpler and overall more consistent. They... they are.

Before Knight went around intentionally looking for a heinous word that was unblocked so that he could put up a CV and pat himself on the back.

The reason this word remained unblocked was because nobody, in the history of this wiki, used it. There was no need to block a word that never saw use. Well now that people know that this word is not blocked, we should block it so nobody uses it. Nobody has or will. Fun fact: flamethrowers are completely unregulated in the United States with the exception of California. Why have we not banned flamethrowers, which can cause immense collateral damage and murder far more people than a semi-automatic firearm?

Because flamethrower homicides have never happened and probably never will. Flamethrower homicides have happened just not in the U.S. Besides, it's only a matter of time before a crazy man (or woman) with a flamethrower goes up and kills everyone, before all other 49 states repeal private flamethrower ownership. There's only one use of a flamethrower on civilians I could find that took place after Vietnam.

Remember that flamethrowers were invented in ancient Greece. Said use of a flamethrower was in 2008... In California, where they're illegal.

So yeah, I think this basically sums up that this is preemptive blocking hiding under the guise of "cleaning up the wiki", for lack of a better term.