There needs to be a Big Sign on the Religious forum here in Free Republic that says ‘We are Prudes and can’t handle purposefully misspelled foul language on the Internet.’ I didn’t even spell the words right and ‘asterixed’ a vowel and substituted ‘ph’ for ‘f’ and ‘zz’ for ‘ss’ and a moderator took this earlier thread down instead of just deleting my comment. Sheesh.
Yeah, they can do whatever they want, it’s their site, I guess, but I think they’ve carried that a little too far. Not my site, though. Do what you will. I’m free to think of that what I want, though and lately I haven’t been around much because of stuff like this.
Should I donate? Well?
There have been many FReepers for whom using foul language was so important that they chose to frequent other sites. Whatever floats your boat.
I agree and I thought that the prudish pruning of comments on that thread was really very ... over the top. It is a religious topic, but not a pious topic. A few exclamations were in order, I thought. But maybe I am at fault because I posted it and was responding.
Profanity is a sure sign of a poor vocabulary.
If you don’t like the rules, go somewhere else. There are plenty of forums that allow that silly behavior.
Might not be the moderator. Certain ‘’auto-censor’’ type programs kick in on certain letter combinations like a double ‘’s’’ or something. I once tried to use the term ‘’intellectual Fagin’’ on a web-site to describe Ward Churchill and it kept getting scrubbed because of the ‘f’ ‘’a’ ‘’g’’ spelling , well, I think it’s obvious. Just saying...
When in Rome ...
When I find a thread in the reliigon forum(s), I tread carefully because that’s a fairly specific place, so I respect it. I regard the general forums very differently, like being out on the street.
Just like I don’t swear in church or temple.
And that’s a fair deal.