# Is the C-word allowed outside the Pit? {Answered: not in a misogynistic way or to insult. Not even with a letter changed} **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 11, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-c-word-allowed-outside-the-pit-answered-not-in-a-misogynistic-way-or-to-insult-not-even-with-a-letter-changed/959325 "2022-02-11T18:13:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 179
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-c-word-allowed-outside-the-pit-answered-not-in-a-misogynistic-way-or-to-insult-not-even-with-a-letter-changed/959325/179 "2022-02-14T18:34:54Z")
I was not a mod when **Shodan** was suspended. I never actually minded **Shodan**. I never got into arguments with him. I thought the complaints about his sign-off were silly in fact. Stated more than once. Though unlike Shodan, I mostly stopped doing my little signatures as so many posters proclaimed how annoying they were in general. But **Shodan** worked pretty hard at getting himself banned and it was summed up perfectly here. > [@The Banning of Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banning-of-shodan/853763/91): > > What Exit? is correct. I’m surprised to have to repeat this but here we go: No banning nor suspension is ever unilateral. The process is straightforward but also collaborationist. Some moderator gives a warning or otherwise notes some rule breaking. If moderator realizes there’s an ongoing problem - multiple notes, warnings, spamming whatever - he or she brings it to the mid loop. Discussion occurs. Often objections are raised early about further sanction - suspension or banning - and that… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-c-word-allowed-outside-the-pit-answered-not-in-a-misogynistic-way-or-to-insult-not-even-with-a-letter-changed/959325)._