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In lugnet.general, "Tim Courtney" <tcourtney@nospam.avenew.com> writes:
> Larry Pieniazek writes:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I don't shield my children from reality, but I certainly can suggest
> > that there are appropriate places for behaviours, and that I would
> > prefer that they hang out in places that recognise what polite behaviour
> > is. And, further, we are not ON RTL at the moment. I would 100% support
> > and welcome a ban on profanity on LUGNET, were it achievable(1).
>
> I would as well.
>
> > 1 - and I would remind you that I feel Todd has the right to institute
> > one should he choose to do so.
>
> Yep. Petition anyone?
Depending on how you interpet the Terms of Use, there already is a ban on
profanity here. (That's how I interpret it.)
The difficult thing is that it's not really possible to define profanity in
any way that people can agree on, especially in purely illustrative contexts
such as Jim Baker's (a.k.a. "Beaker") delicate use of the F-word earlier
this morning.
Another problem in practice is enforcing the ban and pre-declaring any
consequences for "breaking the rules."
If someone is repeatedly being a potty mouth, and they've already been
reminded that this isn't a place for potty mouths, then who knows -- maybe
they'd need to get the boot, temporarily or permanently. Let's hope we
never need to create a .town-square newsgroup for judging people.
If someone offends you, let others know. There can't be any promises that
people will change (or be formally asked to change by others), but since
this isn't Usenet, we as a group of generally mature people can certainly
demand a higher basic level of civility than typically found on Usenet.
If necessary, we can create some sort of .complaints newsgroup for logging
formal complaints against people's verbal behavior (or whatever kind of
behavior) where things could be discussed and hopefully resolved through
some sort of compromise (or agreement to disagree, or whatever).
--Todd
[followups set to lugnet.admin.general since this is off-LEGO-topic now.]
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