Its not really about the word or use of bad words. Perfectly happy to have slapped wrist or swear filter. It all about the abuse of threadlocking, thread binning, when anyone discusses it.
That is the key point. When some people see the thread title - "excessive moderation" - they think that the complaint is about words being deleted, and about the swear filter. But moderation is not simply about removing potentially offensive words and phrases. It is also about binning and locking whole threads. That is where the moderation had gotten excessive.
The problem is not that the filter removes references to female spaniels; it is that threads got locked and binned.
Last edited by: tyro on Fri 19 Mar 10 at 09:52
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