Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24881871-20141004223618/@comment-4750363-20141005151424

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.