"Abusing" the swear filter

[Citizen Bleys]

Bleys, are you just having some fun, or is something really bugging you? I can see Raistlin doing his thing, but you really sounds like something is eating at you.

Actually, now that I think of it, it's not so much the swear filter itself, although the first thing I ever hated about being on staff, which eventually snowballed into my departure from it, is that I had to enforce a swearing rule. What's really eating me, when I look into it a little deeper, is the attitudes I've been seeing from the staff lately. Each and every thread made in here is simply shot down out of hand, usually mocking and insulting the thread-maker. I remember a time when we (as in the staff of then) decided not to make sarcastic comments when closing a thread out of respect for the members that keep this forum alive. Where's the respect for members here? All I'm seeing is respect for staff members, and only from other staff members.

Honestly, if this is the way you're going to be treating the Feedback forum, you might as well just close the bloody thing.

I don't think that discouraging swearing is making anyone richer.

Thanks for saying something completely irrelevant

To them any degree of swearing is too high of a degree, and, excuse me if I'm wrong, but to you any degree of swearing is not too high of a degree.

Correct. But when I was on staff, I enforced the swearing rule, no matter how much I hated doing so--out of respect for the staff, the rules, and the members. I didn't then turn around and swear up a blue stream in every post because I, personally, thought it ought to be allowed. Look at my LJ, and then look at my posts at EoFF and tell me I'm not restraining myself here.

I don't know of a case where a reported post went completely ignored, so excuse me for thinking that's a rediculous statement. Reported posts are dealt with as we see fit.

How about the last post I reported? I didn't even get an acknowledgement. And that's why it'll be the last post I ever report, as long as the Ignore List function remains available on the board. And should the staff ever disable the Ignore List, I hope there's a good, non-rhetoric-obfuscated for it, otherwise I'll have to simply stop showing up.