Forum:Ban on Swearing

The Nitrome Wiki when it started up was a nice, clean place. It still currently is. However, when Bluefire2 came, he began to infrequently swear. This bothered me for a long time. I talked to him, and from what I saw, he thought it okay to use swearing to show how much he felt about something.

I understood what he said, but I still didn't like how he swore. Before I thought I was the only one who was disgusted by this type of language, but [http://nitrome.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Not_the_person_you%27re_thinking_of/I%27m_back,_and_a_few_other_things. from this], I saw that close to all of the Wikia users here were against swearing.

Random-StoryKeeper suggested taking it to the forums, and that's just what I'm doing. Now what I am suggesting is to place these sentences in the Policy which will ban all swearing. If this rule is accepted, users will be warned for swearing. I have already thought up some other rules, and ban rules. These are rules I am proposing. Now what you, the reader, have to do is have a bolded word like Support or Oppose followed by a hyphen (-), and then your comment about why you approve or oppose this policy.
 * All swearing is banned. Whether it be swearing to prove a point, to show how much one thinks about something, or for insulting users. This rule applies for everything across the Wiki, talk pages, mainspace articles, and Chat. Images with swear words in them are also subject to these rules.
 * Misspelling swear words, having the first or last letter followed by symbols, using foreign letters to spell swear words, all count as swearing.
 * If a user swears, the swear word(s) will be blanked out by an admin by replacing all letters with a symbol.
 * If a user does swear, the word will be dealt with as mentioned above, and the writer of the message will be warned. If they have to be warned three times, on the fourth they will be blocked for 2 weeks. When there block expires, if they do swear another 4 times, they will be blocked again, but double the duration of the previous block. For further blocks, the user is blocked for double the duration of the previous block.

I bring this to the forums not just because I am hotly against it and other users are, it's because it could affect the users who join. As Nitrome games are often played by people under 13, if they come to the Nitrome Wiki and see swearing, they may not be allowed to come back. These readers may become potential users who may go on to help the wiki, but cannot due to swearing.

Swearing also affects the Wiki getting Wikia spotlight. It says in the rules the wiki can't use offensive language. If the Wikia Staff were to find this when we apply for Spotlight, we would be instantly disqualify from Wikia spotlight. Wikia spotlight could really help us get many users, and could be very helpful.

Just a few words here and there can completely disqualify us from spotlight. Close to all of the community hate it, it can drive users away, can disqualify us from spotlight, and all these bad things because of swearing.

Vote below! -- 23:28, May 6, 2012 (UTC)