# Bad precedent

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**Created:** [April 9, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-precedent/535594 "2010-04-09T23:45:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-precedent/535594/22 "2010-04-10T02:47:44Z")

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By the way, the word “cunt” has appeared in 240 Cafe Society threads since 2002.

It was used in **twickster** ’s own [thread about David Letterman](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=534343&highlight=cunt).

And only a few months ago, **twickster** moved [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=546144) from MPSIMS to Cafe Socety only two hours and a few posts after someone in the thread had referred to Jon Gosselin as a cunt.

If cunt is an unacceptable word in Cafe Society, why move a thread already containing two instances of the word to Cafe Society? And, more importantly, why is it only now that the word has suddenly become _verboten_?

[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:16, topic:535594”]

**Twickster** did not create any new rules.

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But she did, at least in a _de facto_ way. Here’s what she said:

> [@Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-olivers-food-revolution/533990/45):
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> A lot of people, including myself, find the word “cunt” incredibly offensive. Its use is not allowed in the Pit as an insult against another Doper. Your usage here isn’t against the rules per se, but **given that we’re not in the Pit, it’s completely inappropriate**. Please make an effort to keep your audience in mind with your word choices.

Bolding mine.

How are we to interpret that except as an injunction that the word is forbidden in Cafe Society, at least as long as **twickster** is the person moderating?

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