personally i find that the forum becomes Americanized by this fact. The american sensitivity doesnt need to dominate a world wide forum.
Yes it is Americanized. The Civilization games were meant for the whole world, hopefully this board is meant to serve all of the Civ community. Perhaps it will slowly develop further and let itself be a little bit more internationalized with regard to policy.
Coming from the culture that's renowned for its swearing I voted No. Just like any other set of words swearing actually enriches the language when properly used.
I voted No and I agree with you.
The key is "
when properly used". Many people don't understand what that means. Some think proper use of curse words is the same as one filthy word in every second sentence. Some think that curse words can never be used properly. There must be a middle ground and I believe in that.
It is true that it can enrich the language, but I have never heard swearing in English that enriches the language. The English language have so few swear words, it gets annoying too quickly. No fantasy. Some people over here are also like that; the same few swear words over and over again. I detest it. What enriches the language, is when someone use rare words, or make up totally new swear words. That is enriching and sometimes it can be quite amusing.
I will make something clear (then await the protests by those who disagree with the policy):
We, as moderators, may infract
all of the following:
- Post swear words, and allow the autocensor to hide them.
- Directly post . .. .. .. .. or *****- type phrases (ie: Post directly themselves what the autocensor would have posted)
- Posts letters & symbols in place of swear words.
Obviously, if posting *** or other symbols violates the rules,
then the autocencor is practically rendered useless!
This particular part of the rules (quoted above) is an insult to intelligence. Them who made it up thinks of the members as a mass uncapable of thinking? Want to find out how far we can be pushed without protests?
The last place you will find swearing, is in cartoons like Donald Duck and other Walt Disney productions. As far as I know, they are suitable for kids that can read, and even younger. I'm old now so I don't exactly remember, but I believe it was Walt Disney's cartoons that introduced @#%... to me.
Maybe Donald swore, or maybe he said something else, we don't know. We don't need to know either, we just need to understand that he was furious, and that's what #@ means. It's not a word. It replaces an unknown word, and if the reader wants to fill in a terrible word, then it's the reader's own problem.
I can't believe it's necessary to explain such basic things to an adult group of leaders.
Many people needs to start practicing critical, independent thinking. It's a gift once mastered.
I am a cautious optimist and believe that evolution will sort this out some day.
Ainwood (and others) are of course right about; If you cannot post without swearing, then you should not post anyway.
I personally won't warn anyone for using "hell" or "damn". There are some offensive words that are not on the auto-censor: case-by-case basis / judgement used.
For some people, me included, "hell" and "Satan" is by far the absolutely worst words to say. Still, I do not consider proper use of these words as swearing. Examples of proper use is in a discussion like this, or in theology. An example of abuse (swearing) of these words would be if I said it for no good reason.
I don't know alot of "American" swear words, but I do understand that the so called F-bomb is the most feared of them. This word was adopted in other languages - for instance all the Scandinavian languages - ages ago (like many other English words), and are hardly treated as a particular rude word.
But I do respect you people on the other side, and I would not use such a word in normal talk.
There isn't anything wrong with the smileys themselves -- just how some people use them.
There isn't anything wrong with any words themselves -- just how some people use them. 
A curse filter makes the sites safer for at-work browsing
Work-safe? Minors should not labour in the first place.
. That can say something for our community, its usually pretty friendly and peaceful. The only place that we diffidently need the censor is in the OT forum. I think we should keep it just so that one immature 13 year old doesn't go spamming cuss words all over the place (not saying all 13 year olds are immature...I happen to be one 
