Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20150902020332/@comment-10290971-20150902225522

This is something I'm a little iffy about. On the one hand, I'm anti-censorship and I feel that banning swearing just really work, even if you try to, people would still wind up using asterisks or find other ways to swear. I can understand some swears being censored, but I find some of them to not really need to be censored.

I recently did a project where I taught 3rd graders and a lot of them use Damn, Crap, and Hell, like we do. I personally don't consider Hell or Crap to be curse words and as time goes on I find Damn to be less and less of a swear word as well.

On the other hand though, not every child is like the children that I worked with, and we are a wikia about a children's game. It might be better if we did ban swearing altogether.

If you want to know about another site which had a similar dilemma, I was apart of Canterlot (A My Little Pony Roleplay site) and they allowed cursing with the exception of the "F,S,P, and N-words".

Honestly I like what we have now, it allows some freedoms to the users while not being too "not-family-friendly". If we are to make a change, I'm leaning a little more towards unbanning swearing, but I'd be perfectly okay if we banned swearing from the wiki and allowed it in chat.