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Originally Posted by JaVeDK
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I have to disagree with you Jilena. Cleaning up ones language and acting civilized is the exact opposite of "dumbing" the conversation down. It's a testament to the sad decline of the English language (of which I am not even a native speaker BTW), that people are unable to communicate with proper words in a respectful manner. It seems that sounding cool and using the right buzz words and gangster slang is more important than the actual content. In many circles a well thought out and concisely formulated argument somehow loses out to an outrageous and, apparently, funny insult. I'm not saying that I never smile at a well crafted insult, but I cannot get behind the notion that it's somehow more interesting or cool to be a funny jerk than an intelligent gentleman.
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My point wasn't so much that it's impossible to be funny without being vulgar so much as that almost all humor is at someone's expense. No matter what the topic is someone is bound to be offended. If we do away with everything that could possibly be construed as offensive we eventually reach a point that it gets to be ridiculous.
I am 100% with you in banning people who post nothing but complete shit or spew nothing but anger angst hate whatever... Again the occasional "EAT A BAG OF DICKS BITCH" is funny. But someone who posts nothing but "FAG!", "YOU FAIL AT LIFE", "I HOPE YOU DIE IRL", "CHOKE TO DEATH ON THAT DOUGHNUT FATTY!", "CRY MORE NOOB" in every single response is obviously not contributing to the forum in any meaningful manner. No one will miss these people. I just think being TOO strict is asking for a pretty fail boring place.
Also please consider that some of us have been dealing with people online for a LONG time, we are pretty desensitized to what some might find offensive. I mean I was looking at violent images, reading disturbing forum posts, and viewing scat porn on BBSes before some of the members of p99 (tralina for instance) were literally even born. It takes a LOT to offend me or gross me out. I have been to the internet, I have seen things, what has been seen cannot be unseen. As such I have a pretty twisted sense of humor and I am guessing this is also common in a good number of p99 folks.
This is not an excuse for acting the fool obviously, but disapproving of our indifference or tolerance of such behavior is a bit unfair. I can find much better things to be offended about and waste energy on than someone being called a faggot on a gaming message board. *shrug*