Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24718406-20160610053940/@comment-3978541-20160612032501

Skully Of House Lannister wrote: Eagleeyedan wrote: B.

Reasons:

1) It is a word not allowed on the Message Boards and I will stress again, we base our rules on those of the Message Boards. Like it or leave it, that's how it is.

2) There are plenty of substitutes to use if one must resort to them.

3) While the word itself isn't really one of the worst, it's allowed on most broadcast media, it is still one which can be misused in a bullying way such as "Damn you"

▂▃▅▆▇█▓▒░Eagleeyedan▒░▓█▇▆▅▃▂ 1) Have you been on the wiki at all recently? :P We break every rule of the MBs constantly. xD

2) But they don't have the same effect. I mean, there are plenty of other ways to say tons of words, but we don't ban them because there are synonyms. :p

3)...bullying will still be against the rules. :P

1) Yes, I have noticed, it pains me greatly and is a major factor in why I am not as active as I used to be.

2) This is very true, but the nature of the word is particularly, well, damning :P

3) I would assume as much and if it passes, there would have to be stipulations on its use.

I will add that I am not *entirely* against unblocking it, it is a word I ocassionally use myself in the proper context, but there is really no reason why the word should be needed in chat if you stick to topics that are appropiate. It is still a strong word and should be treated with the appropiate amount of respect and the current culture of the wiki has a tendency to be rather loose in the use of strong words and stray to inappropiate topics with which such language is associated. If that were not the case and I could trust that the word would be used properly, then I would be more supportive of unblocking it but as it stands, right now I simply cannot. ▂▃▅▆▇█▓▒░Eagleeyedan▒░▓█▇▆▅▃▂