Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24881871-20141004223618/@comment-24881871-20141005154218

WhyAmIReadingThis wrote: I'd like to bring back a little matter that I'm sure a lot of people here remember:

Sexual talk.

I do remember some of the arguments used, which were similar:

-"It doesn't offend anybody"

-"We're mature enough to use this properly"

-"They're just words"-

And a few others.

Reminder of how it ended: the same people who proposed it were the main advocants to bring it back, because it was so, so overused that it ended turning everything uncomfortable for most people.

I can say with complete certainty that this slur matter would end exactly the same.

I'll be a jerk for saying it, but I...don't have a single shred of trust on the chat community's maturity. I can't believe not even for a second that people won't be passing slurs around like they were candy.

If this proposal passes, I can only say that it'll be a definite step towards the definitive shutdown of the chat. There's no other path it could go to.

Aaaaaaaaand...one small, tiny and completely not relevant at all addendum: getting more than 50% supports doesn't guarantee that it'll be accepted. After all, remember that Administrators and Bureucrats do have the last word about it.

Sex talk has always been a rule I've upheld. The reason is nothing good comes of sex talk. The same can be said of slurs, but if we are to make that argument, it could be said that swearing doesn't serve much of a purpose either. However, Guy expressed that slurs and swears are fundamentally different in meaning because of their histories, which he graphically illustrated in the cases of Emmett Till and James Byrd Jr. I could argue all day about the etymology of these words, but ultimately that would be missing the point. I'll leave the thread open because of the debate it's sparked and also because we haven't received a response from Wikia staff yet, but at this point I no longer have an official stance.

About your addendum: I am aware of this. I have said as much to other users in the chat. However, the voting system helps make clear how much the community likes or dislikes an idea. This in turn is taken into account by the administrators and bureaucrats.