Board Thread:Important Stuff/@comment-27178869-20140919191807

Rule 7 prohibits profanity on articles and their comments. This was done because, naturally, a website that has Nickelodeon in its name attracts a younger audience. Most of these youngins below the age of 13 don't know how to properly use expletives, thinking profanity itself is just funny to use (when it's not). A perfect example of this would be our beloved, inactive cyberbully David. But, considering the fact Wikia no longer appeals to children, I think it's time this rule gets changed.

My proposal: allow profanity. Here's the thing though, we all have a good sense of judgement, yes? If profanity is spotted being used out of context OR being unnecessarily overused (ex. the f-bomb in every sentence) OR just in a way where it makes no sense, you'll be forced to censor it or have the expletive removed entirely. As a teenager, we should all know how to properly use this type of language, I mean, we hear it everywhere (thanks for tainting my purity Merica). Using profanity in any of the three aforementioned ways generally gives everybody a good estimation of your age, which would clearly be below 13.

And I'm well aware profanity is against Wikia's Terms of Use, but literally every other wiki I go on I see expletives. So if staff wants to get up my ass about this, they need to explain why other wikis get this privilege.

So, support the proposal? Against it? Discuss. 