I made a subfriends-only LJ entry about this roughly two weeks ago, and said that if most people agreed with me, I'd post it here. However, BoB told me to not bother, since they were already discussing it in Staff.

I recently asked another Staffer if anything had been decided, and he said no, and the discussion in Staff had just fizzled out.

So copy/pasted from my LJ:

From my understanding, the swear filter was originally put into place solely because Google demanded it for the ads to be put on EoFF, which Sean needed to happen so he could be at least somewhat reimbursed for the exorbitant amounts of money EoFF costs. He made it clear that he did not really agree with a filter, but it really didn't matter and money > principle.

Let me just first off make it clear that I have absolutely no problem with Cid's decision. I'd probably do the same thing if tGA took 4 terabytes/month bandwidth(or whatever it was that it takes).

However, my complaint here is the extreme lengths certain(read: one) staffer goes to enforce the "swear filter." I wasn't even aware that swearing was against the rules, merely that the filter was put in place to satisfy a third party. Actual enforcement of the rule, as far as I'm aware, does not affect the Google ads. So why is it so bad?

Anyway, what constitutes "getting around" the swear filter? Is "s***" or "$h*t" somehow less offensive than four skulls? It's the same word. However, I digress. I won't get into the arbitrariness(is that a word?) and irrationality of "offensive" words. That is for a future, possible EoEO, discussion.

I can't help but notice that only one of the Staffers even bothers enforcing the swear filter. Doesn't that tell anyone anything? Isn't it quite possible that this aforementioned staffer is following some personal preference of his/her own(yes, I'm not going to give away the identity of this staffer, though anyone who's been to EoFF should know who) rather than thinking of the board itself(which is an immature, FG-like mentality)?

Friends only.
Replies to my entry(some of them from EoFF staff):

Also, I think the swear filter was in effect for a few select words before the google ads. More words were added because of this.

And I don't think the google thing is relevant anymore. The way I remember it, google rejected him at first because of swearing on the forums, and he had it cleaned up. But I don't think he's that worried about it any more.

My personal opinion is to leave the filter as it is, and let people say what they want.
I agree with you Raistlin.
He said more, but it was a bit too specific for now.

I whole-heartedly agree, but whatever. I try not to swear on the forums anyway, so no skin off my back.
I think I know who you're talking about! It's that one guy, right?
Bleys also replied, but I'll just leave it at that he agreed with me. His was a bit too heated for now. xD

No need to make a big deal out of it in Feedback, because we're already talking about it in the staff forum anyway.
That was BoB. Even though he didn't say, I know he agreed. *pokes*