Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on November 10, 2022, 11:16:10 AMIt's all about context I suppose. A sprinkling of earthy language to achieve a desired effect can be useful, but I've been on sites where it's overuse looks very ugly. It's why I'm a big fan of Peter Kay. He's no shrinking violet but he doesn't rely on coarse language to be funny. I can't bear to watch anything with Gordon Ramsay in it. That's the kind of swearing I find offensive, just littering sentences with words which don't convey any kind of emphasis or meaning. There is one site I've been on where they insist on using substitute words such as carrot for Fishy's favourite 😁 but it's a bit pointless when your mind is receiving the message carried anyway. I think on TNMS we used to rearrange swear words, or drop in a symbol instead of a crucial letter, but I think that kind of self policing was mainly due to the fact that the visitors in general were a fairly decent bunch who didn't see the necessity for dragging the place to the gutter. My shorter post should really have been, no, I'm not easily offended and if folk wish to drop a few nuclear devices go ahead, but better to do so if it adds to rather than detracts from the message. Over and f***ing out!🤬🤬🤬
When I was moderating on TNMS I used to be quite, err, anal about the use of swear words, that James Gibbon bloke was the biggest culprit My argument was that the main board was free for all to see and we certainly had some quite young members at the time who, I felt, shouldn't be exposed to that sort of language. Hilarious really, in hindsight, as the younger generation seem to use it all the time. That, and all the other Mods would just take the piss out of Uncle Pudders lol!
No objection from me then!