User blog comment:CandD/Catching Fire!!!!!!/@comment-5386076-20120520230430/@comment-3060206-20120606071312

@Santi Please just let me explain what I mean before we drop the topic so that you might have a chance to understand. Vandalism, quoted from a dictionary, is "the malicious and deliberate defacement or destruction of somebody else's property". While you may not be "destroying" someone else's property in this case, you deliberately defaced CandD's words, even going far as to changing them into Pokemon lingo, something completely irrelevant from the subject. The least you could have done is tell CandD you don't feel comfortable with the word being up there in the comments rather than going ahead and editing it, especially if CandD didn't say anything wrong or swear.

What I really was trying to get at was that we admins need to remember that not everyone has the luxury of editing each others' comments to change them into words we want to see. Sometimes we just have to face the reality that bad things do exist in this world, and that we can't make everything flowers and sunshine for all users around here. This blog post alone already suggests "bad things"; the book itself is about death and violence. We are already being a nice enough Wiki to ban and censor all swearing, however, this can become problematic when words such as "suicide" come up in a discussion. The case would have been completely different if the comment said something like, "Go and hurt yourself." (using less harsh words on purpose because I get the gist they're making certain users here uncomfortable) because it is purposely directed at someone and it is not polite. But if stating what happened in the past, well, you cannot change the past, so not saying it at all will not change anything.

Maybe you don't want to continue this discussion, which is completely fine by me, but you also said that you didn't understand what I meant by my points, so I felt obliged to clarify for you. And now that that's done, we can drop it.