User blog comment:Random-storykeeper/Censorship/@comment-3541956-20120620065912

Agreed. My proposed additions:


 * 1) Unless the word is one of the two words quite comically described by NOBODY as "bombs", or any racially offending sentence/word, then it can only be removed/censored by or with the consent of either the poster or the owner of the talk/discussion page.
 * 2) Dammit, hell and asterisks should definitely not be considered as swear words.
 * 3) We should loosen up on impersonal swearing.
 * 4) As mentioned by me above, the only reason things like !@$@#$@#$@!$# can be considered bad is if they are used as spam.
 * 5) Deliberately misspelling our little bombs should be considered swearing, as well as rule evasion (trying to evade the rules laid out by using a different spelling).
 * 6) F*** and s*** should be loosened up on, unless it's "F*** you" (Captain Obvious to the rescue).
 * 7) Lastly, as said above, if you really want yourselves to be seen as mature, don't blank out dammit, hell, et cetera.

Concerning all the points, especially that last one: we need to get the balance right. Example: there is (or was, I don't know if it's still active) a YouTube RuneScape series called "Making bank - divine from nothing" (the divine spirit shield is one of the most expensive and sought for items in the game). It started off as a good guide, with the host showing a new moneymaking method and doing it for 10 or so minutes every episode. On the fifth episode, he said he wasn't having fun so the viewers probably weren't either (I like that assumption), so he was going to do what he liked doing - "If I don't have fun, you don't have fun. If I do have fun, you do too!" So, every episode from then on involves watching him go to the god wars dungeon, killing level 600+ monsters for their drops. Problem: 90% of the player base a) don't know where that is, b) are too low level to get access to half the items he had, c) were too low level to face a lvl 600 anyway. That's why I wonder if the show is still up.

Sorry for getting a bit carried away there, but I hope you see my point. And for NTPYTO, religion does favour this approach - the whole basis of Buddhism is to find the central path: yes, one should fast and all, so as not to spend life in overwhelming luxury, but one should also not go too far with their fasting and deprive themselves of everything. Read about the story of Buddha and his enlightenment to find out what I mean and why that is so.