Board Thread:Administrator's Noticeboard/@comment-7697305-20140527012127/@comment-24133975-20140527183811

Squazzil wrote: I feel this is a measure that the wiki doesn't have to take, and the active chat moderators that we have can take the appropriate measures if a chatter gets out of line. If someone casually swears from time to time? This should be allowed. If a troll comes in and just starts swearing up and down for the sake of it, then he can be kicked, or possibly banned. I worry that adding this could potentially backfire, causing trolls to want to spam other things even more when they find out there is an attempt to censor them. I don't agree that swearing in a public chat is something to be censored unless it goes to an extreme, which can be dealt with. This wiki chat can have a variety of age ranges, not just the very young, and it is the parents of the children that come into chat that should be held responsible if their child is exposed to swearing or not. I have been to websites where there was censoring added, and it was not well received. But, if it is implemented here, I do hope it works out well, and that it will not create other annoyances to overcome.

Squazzil brings a few good points here. But, I still have to say I disagree. Here's why:


 * First, I agree with it being okay to swear from time to time. Considering that, that's why we're planning on (if this goes through) programming the filter to only block more severe words, words that people don't use in casual swearing, words that people usually use in aggravating or trolling others.


 * If the filter does backfire and the trolls do have an uprising we will deal with them accordingly and in the same way we would deal with them if they had come into chat for no reason other then trolling.


 * See, swearing in a public chat, this wiki's chat, is pretty much non-existent, so it's not like it would affect the way people communicate. The filter would be used to block out harsher words that trolls tend to use, not words that casual swearers use.


 * Even if it is the parents fault that their children get exposed to profanity, it should be our desire, as Chat Moderators, to attempt to provide a clean, profanity-free place to chat for users of any and all ages.