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Swearing on the increase
Wolfie:
The club has a no swearing rule - FACT
EVERY member of the club HAS agreed to abide by this rule - FACT
Look at what you agreed to when you joined. http://forums.mud-club.com/profile.php?mode=register
Consider whether we actually WANT to have do do so much moderating.
att:
--- Quote from: "Steve ray" ---Far too much moderating and too many "trigger-happy" mods (in my opinion) on MC ......
I don't go out of my way to swear, but I must say that over the last year or two I've been a member, a lot of mods have adopted a "high n mighty" attitude, hiding behind the "rules" and being far too 'PC' instead of taking a pragmatic approach.
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Indeed.
It`s a ******* travesty :wink:
I would just like to add that I spelled a word with a 5 the other letters were hit...This was not trying to 'beat' a swear filter, I just thought I was being respectful :roll:
I have not yet opened the mods PM as I am unsure as to how I am going to respond......It may well involve prams and rattles, but it may also be roses and chocolate... :wink:
Whatever...The world keeps spinning and I keep waking up...Life is easy............ :D
L90OOK:
--- Quote from: "Steve ray" ---Far too much moderating and too many "trigger-happy" mods (in my opinion) on MC ......
I don't go out of my way to swear, but I must say that over the last year or two I've been a member, a lot of mods have adopted a "high n mighty" attitude, hiding behind the "rules" and being far too 'PC' instead of taking a pragmatic approach.
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My tuppence worth to all who have a problem with MC...
Mud Club is FREE to one & all who wish to use it. If this FREE forum has a few rules that we have to follow then so be it.
If you don't like the FREE forum, it's rules, admins, moderators or by which means its run please feel free to start your own forum & see how much time & expense goes into running a site like this...instead of moaning about this one is run. :roll: :smack:
I for one am pleased MC is moderated as my kids like to read the forum posts too.
A big thank you to all who own & run a excellent FREE forum. \:D/
datalas:
There are an astoundingly few number of swear words in the word filter, initially we only put the ones which we as admins / founders thought were particularly offensive, for reasons which I don't think we need to explain.
Since then, we have traditionally had complaints from people, notably parents about particular words in threads which they, or their children were reading and these were removed and in some cases added to the swear filter where we thought appropriate.
In those cases people were informed and the appropriate threads moderated. Now, back in these days there was an element of self moderated context. Well, what do I mean by that? Simple really the parents and hence presumably the children were naturally attracted to particular conversations and avoided others. This is what initially led to what could be described as an uneven means of moderation. However it does by and large work and doesn't apply what could be construed as too restrictive a set of rules on adults having an "adult" conversation.
So what went wrong? Well generally people who should know better started abusing the system. In cases where moderation was applied they either took it personally or viewed it as some form of highly belittling insult and then read every other topic on the forum using the lack of moderation in those threads to excuse their swearing.
Now, perhaps I'm stupid, but I would rather dearly love to see a return to the good old days where moderators were allowed to moderate and were given enough respect that people just accepted the moderation and didn't view it as a vindictive assault on their entire existence.
Yes it's censorship to a degree, but as the saying goes freedom does not come without a price, and that price is that we must all show a degree of restraint where it is appropriate.
Now, I've just come back from a really pathetic weekend and whilst I like an open debate as much as the next man I fear we are not going to get one. What we will get is people saying "but you don't like me and I should be allowed to swear". Such a desire is your right as an individual, but please ask yourself why you feel the need to swear in the first place.
I don't post as much as I used to, simply because every time I do I get drawn into an argument or belittled. You feel as if you can't swear, well I sympathise I really do, however I feel as if I'm not allowed to say anything or have an opinion.
Besides, it isn't moderation, it's just a linguistic challenge to be able to express yourself adequately with a restricted vocabulary.
Sooty:
At the end of the day the rules are there for everyone to read, before and after they ask to join the club
When you asked to join you gave your word that you would abide by the rules.
This is not a PC point but a request that as an honest man you are true to your word, and before anyone starts saying that I am calling them dishonest that is not what I am doing, I have made promises in the past and than not stayed true to my word because I am not perfect and forget now and again, but I don't complain when someone reminds me of what I agreed to weather it be in a polite way or no. I just say sorry to the person and promise that I will try not to let it happen again.
Sorry if anyone is offended by this.
My final word on the subject.
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