I understand that when something has rules, they need to be followed, and of course something like a moderator needs to stand as someone who enforces the rules in case things get out of hand.
But when that moderator only chooses to enforce the rules some of the time on some kind of whim and the bends like a reed in the wind to other related matters, that's what gets my goat.
Sure, go ahead and make a rule about no cussing. Whatever. It's understandable that some 13-year-old will wander along and their morality is put into our hands. I cuss from time to time, but I know how to hold my tongue around children. HOWEVER, a rule of
limited profanity has been in place from the start, and only now, a year later, has it become some kind of issue for some ungodly reason. I witnessed a person being come down upon (in front of everyone, no less, in a very juvenile manner) for dropping the f-bomb a couple of times. If anyone cared to read the rule that is in place right now, it says nothing about NO cussing, but rather that we must keep language/profanity to a minimum. I'm not too offended by the f-word used sporadically, the word is hardly ever used seriously anyway. There were, at the time, more obvious culprits, and yet they get away with everything.
And yet I'm still confused -- why now of all times? The place I speak of has always been a stinking cesspot of immature sex jokes and toilet humor, and only NOW are we concerned about
profane language? Was it not my concern since 13-year-olds did indeed start wandering among our numbers that we should stop with the jokes about sex and indecent remarks? I care little about their claimed "maturity," all little teenagers are entitled twits and need to be given better examples so they don't turn out to be little trolls.
If we're going to make some example by stopping the foul language, fine, but we're going to need to stop all the indecent "profane" behavior (which does involve almost everything that's ever of a hot topic of conversation in there), too, or make another "ADULTS ONLY" room so the immature adults can go circle jerk, whatever. I'm not going to half-ass some effort to clean up things in there. In fact, until anyone cares to give more effort to act their age, I'm not playing a part in any of it.
PHEW what a dumb thing to rant about.
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