Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24881871-20141004223618/@comment-25393922-20141005003145

>The Wikia ToU only prohibits hate speech

>implying slurs are not used in hate speech.

Slurs are banned because they are considered hate speech - in Wikia's mind, that's offensive language, including slurs.

Also, the last thing we need is for someone in chat to come in saying "WASSUP MAI N*GGA!" and using other ephitets devolving the chat to an even worse condition than what it was when it got shut down.

And your example with "Tranny". You can't say "transsexual" or "transgender" for what reason?

You're basically saying "Let's use reason to NOT be civilized, reasonable people! We can write stories with them! Why can't we use them in real life?!" You can have a psychotic killer in a story too. You aren't allowed to become one.

And also, using, say, "gay" in proper terms, meaning happy, or someone referring to themselves as gay (meaning either happy or homosexual) is already allowed. It's no different than using lesbian. Using "gay" derogatorily isn't.

Now, if this were say, lightening the punishment to a kick instead of a full on ban, I'd be agreeable. But unfortunately, I cannot agree to - or allow - such an underhanded and blatant blowoff of the ToU and community guidelines. Unless I'm misunderstanding and you're saying people shouldn't be banned for using the words in an educational or objective context? In that case, why is this up? Because it's already allowed.