Gettin' In Tune,
The profanity rule was set in place because frankly this is a forum meant for intelligent debate and or discussion. As mentioned earlier in this thread profanity is just throw away language and it really would slow down or even take a lot of great conversations way off track unnecessarily.
I'm not anti profanity. I use it in my day to day life offline to be honest.
You should know however, that there are quite a few reasons it's not allowed, a few of which are mentioned above and a few behind the scenes ones.
The old saying give a guy an inch and he'll take a mile applies here as well. I could open up the forum and let everyone curse up a storm but the problem is that there will always be a few bad apples in the bunch that take it too far and ruin it for everyone else. I can't allow profanity for some and not for others so to level the playing field it's not allowed at all.
So to lay the bottom line down for you. This place is not a democracy. There are rules I set up a long time ago and I'm pretty certain the vast majority of the users here agree with them. But in the end I really don't need them to. Rules and guidelines help benefit us all and not allowign profanity defintiely helps keep things in order around here but it also forces us to speak intelligently and really think about what we're saying.
Don't get me wrong though. This is not a dictatorship either..... I lost the right to call this "my community" a long time ago IMO. This is our community and we all pitch in to keep it pleasant for everyone. Just like you donate to support the community by becoming a green member I too donate and pitch in where I can only I tend to donate a bit more than everyone else
Og and The-Anjel help keep things in line and I help them by providing them a rule set to make it easier for them to know where to draw the line. Could you imagine how rough it would be on them to have to run around policing profanity laced tirades? It's a thankless job they do as it is.
Hope you understand, and feel free to reply with any questions and or suggestions you may have.
- George