Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24881871-20141004223618/@comment-25393922-20141005012550

Likferd wrote:

Steam Phoenix wrote:

Likferd wrote:

Steam Phoenix wrote: If someone is inciting hate speech, then ban them. It's inappropriate and against global rules. That doesn't mean we should lax on other rules moreso than we already have. That has nothing to do with what I just said. Yeah, it does. If someone ridicules, say, a religious minority, warn them and ban them. We don't need to abolish a rule that is there for not only a local but a global reason to stop people from being arrogant.

All you have to do is pay attention to the ridicule and not just the words used in it. I edited my message to express that you were digressing from the main topic; what you said was indeed relevant to what I said, but only in part. As for slurs being being globally banned, that's only partially true. The ToU does briefly mention ethnic slurs (though it is worth noting it does not specify slurs of any other kind), but the main idea is to avoid hate speech in general. If the content of the person's message is not hateful in nature, it's a non-issue.

Hate speech of any kind is not tolerated by Wikia, and thus it will not be tolerated here. However, slurs when used in a context that isn't disparaging towards another user are not technically meant to be offensive; they are used to illustrate a point. Taking note of the fact that an individual can choose to take offense to anything, this is a fair enough middle ground. Assuming our moderators are competent enough to differentiate between a person deliberately being offensive and one who is using it as a tool to communicate a thought, there shouldn't be a problem. Jim's comment is an accurate summation of my thoughts.

Again, then why is this up? I specifically said in my original comment that using the words in context, such as someone using gay to mean happy or referring to themselves as gay, was perfectly allowed.