[BlackSolider]

Erm....whatever happened to freedom of speech?

Obviously harassment is not allowed and all, but how is recording swear words allowed? Excessive and/or spam swearing is not necessary, but the occasional "bad word" (w/e that means) doesn't need to be logged.

Most people use swear words to emphasize what they're feeling. Rather than say "well this sucks" they say "well this ****ing sucks". Would saying "well this really sucks" add the same emphasis to their statement? Probably. But I don't feel like staff should be monitoring certain words just b/c a few ppl dislike them.

Here's an example. During my senior year of high school, I had two "dual credit" classes where a college prof from the nearby community college would come and teach. One class had a complete ***** for a teacher (english) and she was completely anti-swear and had a strict set of rules for everything. Hell one time she failed me on a paper just b/c I had three swear words in it. However, my other teacher was almost the opposite. She'd swear in class and was pretty relaxed about everything. One time we moved class to a pizza place down the street.

Ironically I swore less in my gov class (cool teacher) than in my english class (***** teacher). I think that perhaps the more you harden the rules, the more people resist. Right now we're probably good as is. But do not ever put in a swear filter b/c I theorize that people will do anything and everything possible to get around it and/or fight it.

Honestly I don't like this monitoring or bleeping of any words at all. I want to be able to say what I feel; if that includes an occasional "swear word" then so be it. Words are just words. If people chose to be offended by them, that's their problem. If you call me a redneck, I will be disappointed on how uninformed and misguided you are, but I won't request that redneck is filtered or bleeped or anything. If you call me a short, slow white boy, I'll laugh b/c its true. Now if you call me a mother ****er or ***** or something, I won't be very happy with you; but although I might disagree with what they say, I'll defend to the death their right to say it without it being bleeped out.