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  • Profanity: How small minds try to speak with strength? (Vanity)

    09/23/2010 4:10:41 PM PDT · by don-o · 256 replies · 2+ views
    Kittle House on Unaka | September 23, 2010 | don-o
    The increase of vulgarity and profanity on this board is troublesome to me. It was not always so. I can remember the “olden days”. There was no profanity. None. And there was no chat. None. The first Freepers held one another to a high standard of discourse. I wonder why and how the profanity has become so common? The rule in the reply box includes “no profanity”. Do we have a problem of definition as to what constitutes profanity? Does replacing one of the letters in the “F” word with %## or ! mean that we have not used profanity...