Hi OP and welcome to our forums. I understand your enthusiasm and all, but do try to refrain from certain words in the thread title, alright?

Sure we can, just don't be cruel to them, that's all :D

I don't suppose appealing to at least a slight veil of civility in the forums would work? No?

We average about one topic a year with "ass" in the subject. One every other year with "fuck" (according to my googling), One "shit" a year, and innumerable "damns", "hells" and whatnot.

I figured: you know what? Let's try and keep this to a minimum because, hey: it doesn't hurt to try apply the thinnest veneer of civility, does it? It's hardly censorship. We're asking nicely.

-_-

The link stands unchanged. I think you're clever enough to figure it out, Xyem. :P

I do. On the other hand, you don't agree with me. Thus why we're here discussing it. ;)

I've already explained: changing the links is a hell of a hassle. I'm attempting to encourage people to avoid putting profanity in their topics by simply changing the text that shows up in the forum directory and asking nicely that they refrain in the future.

This is censorship in the same manner that requiring someone have a computer to play a game is DRM.

My word, but this has started up a firestorm. Sorry, OP. Welcome to the fora, by the way.

Look, in all honesty, I probably would not have moderated that thread because the words I would rather not see in topics are the "Seven Words You Can't Say On TV." (thanks, George Carlin). And hey, look: we have someone new at the company who's in the fora a lot, and there will indubitably be a few mistakes while he's learning the ropes here.

My point remains: I think by changing the thread title and politely asking the OP to refrain from using profanity in the topic, we're changing nothing substantive (is a difference that makes no difference a difference?), while still indicating to the OP and those who read the post that it is our preference that they please refrain from doing that again.

It is no more censorship than if you were at a party and the host asked you to please refrain from talking about orangutans. Can you? Yes, of course. The host doesn't have groupthink control of your brain. However, he's made a preference known, so you are at least aware before you speak that--perhaps--he has a deep and abiding phobia for primates of the subfamily Ponginae.

This is not actually an unusual level of completely sidetracked conversation for a thread. It's more of a (mostly) polite brawl here than anything else. ;)