Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys
My problem is with people getting dressed down because they use filtered words "too much." Not getting around the swear filters at all, leaving it as the skulls, but doing it too much to suit one person's liking. It's not breaking any rules--that's why the filter is there in the first place--but people are still getting dressed down for it. That borders on harassment.
Unless it's extremely excessive, then yeah, I think I'm on the same lines as you are.

Raist: Your request for change is denied. Live with it. I manage to get by despite a lot of request of mine being denied, so should you.

There's a distinct difference between using your moderator powers in order to make the board better and using them to further your own personal preference. As I said, that's not a very good staff policy.
As far as I know this sort of thing isn't anything that needs to be dealt with in the open. If you have a personal problem with how a staffer is dealing with someone, raise it to an admin and we'll look into it within staff. You won't see the discussion but we'll make our own decision on how things should be done and we make sure everyone on Staff knows the rules. So, if this is a personal choice thing, send me a PM and I'll make sure it's looked into. I don't need to feed the results back to you directly, though, and for all you know it's already been looked into.

As for how one thing is more offensive than another, that's up to us, again. I personally don't see any difference between 'Hell' and 'Heck' but some do, I respect that. Same with 'flipping' and another word. Same with 'crap' and another word. But the fact remains that SOME PEOPLE do, and we made a decision over certain words and that's the outcome. Also, using $h*t is different to . If you can't fathom that, I could go into a lengthy post detailing the differences, but I don't think I really need to. To YOU they mean the same thing, but to a newbie who just joined the board, they don't. One is readable is the main point.

Finally, you don't have to like the rules, you just have to abide by them. While we're all able to discuss it in this thread (for now), that doesn't mean the rule itself is open for discussion. We've discussed it dozens of times in the past and it's changed on probably about a dozen occasions, but I don't see the point in changing it any further. There will always be a group of people on one side of the fence complaining about the rule favouring those on the other side of it.