Suggestion: *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*

Yeah.. I've noticed a LOT of swearing and censor bypassing lately especially in the time since I've been more active on here. A lot in chatty-areas, or areas where postcount doesn't matter as much, and also a LOT in the blogs.

I was wondering if mods just stopped caring about this, or if you guys just want to be more lenient.. but I feel like if the forum is really stressing that it be G-rated... then it really should be enforced. If it's not a big deal, then why is there censors in the first place?

What I'm trying to say is.. perhaps it can be enforced a little harsher.. Warnings actually being given.. or maybe one of those "Reminder" announcement things at the top every once in a while stating that it's against the rules and people should report any that they see.

I don't see swearing as sacrilegious or anything.. but I just find it kinda.. disrespectful to the mods and the rules if people feel like they can say whatever they want and not regard the rules.

Any other suggestions on enforcing it a bit more? Can mods maybe actually give warnings about it? What does everyone here think about this?


Edit: and pardon my sentence structure in this post... it's late and I'm tired ;_;

As long as they aren't using the language like "F THIS GAME THOSE F'ERS AT F'ING NINTENDO SUCK" or swearing at another member, I usually ignore it. I think that's the general policy as well.

So it's okay to come into a thread randomly and say "My life is *beep*-ed up" or something along those lines?

Or something like "I *beep*'n stubbed my toe the other day?"

Or something like "Oh man those Canadians are a bunch of *beep*s"


:/ Is that really okay to do nowadays? Not even given a verbal warning or a PM telling them to watch their conduct?

:/ Man I can see this becoming an emblem soon.. person with the biggest pottymouth.

Just another note...we've never aimed for a G rating. A lot of Disney/children's movies don't even get G anymore, so G is stretching it a lot. We've always aimed to keep PC within a PG-13 rating, so occasional swearing is tolerated to a certain point. Of course there are some words that are off-limits, swearing to insult another member is not allowed, and if every other word is a swear that's going overboard, but for the most part we're pretty lenient when it comes to it.

It all depends on the context and person's history. If I notice they're swearing a lot, I'll send them a VM asking them to cool off a bit on the swearing. If it's just an occasional thing, I really don't see it as that big of a deal.

Errr.
I don't see what you're saying here. The censor system here filters out swear words so they are replaced with asterisks, like many forums do. You're saying we should warn/infract on top of that when stuff isn't even there?
For something as petty as swearing? D:

I don't really see how it's harming anyone if it's censored. That's what the censor is there for XD;
Now if people were bypassing the filter, I'd see reason to be annoyed, but what hurt is an asterisk or two? :p

/twocents

:3 Okay~

I guess this clears a lot of ****ing things up!


(Hehehe :3 Jokes, jokes.)

Damn.

With me, as long as it's not the F word or S--t (Excuse censor bypass, but some might not know if I just said "S word"), I don't really mind, since Hell and Damn have their origins from the Bible and deal with the Christian religion.

Of course, that's just me.

As long as all the naughty words are censored by asterisks, I don't see the problem. XD

I'm no saying that people like me that curse quite often IRL should use the same vocabulary here, but it's alright to use the words to express emotional extremes. XD

Plus, if we really were aiming to be a G-rated community, do you really think there would be discussions about sexuality and such?

I have also noticed alot of trolls along with swearing. The moderators don't do anything about them. So I guess it's okay to troll a pokemon forum.

I really don't care, to be honest. As long as a person doesn't go dropping F-bombs on me or another person like mad, I'm pretty chill with it. I tend to curse A LOT IRL, but on PC, I hardly do.

And Erick/twocents pointed out the asterisks substitution, so they mainly are censored. So, yeah, I really couldn't give a damn about curses.


So, in the end, your idea/suggestion really wouldn't cut it there, would it?