Oh boy. I get to jump into this now. (Is this topic bound to get everyone hating the “great master” ?)
My comment on this topic, for now at least, will be to the OP at hand.
I agree to 100% to point being made. It does not solve a problem, and it creates a secondary problem.
Leet Speak.
In much the same way, I am sure we all know what pr0n is. Internet filters insalled on some sites, forced this word into existance.
(If you don’t know what it is, you can make a guess, teenaged boys, and the internet in equal measure gave birth to this “term”.)
**Do we really want this board to turn the corner, and go backwards? **
It seems as if nothing truly productive (in the long term) is being created from limits on (As far as I can tell, 1/6th no wait, we now have worthless “The Barn” threads to wade through… 1/8th of the board.)
We held profanity to 1/8th of the board. It is now ironically moving on the second Eighth. Where and When will it stop?
I suggest that the SDMB is an intelligent enough place to reserve its speech and hold it’s tounge when needed. I believe that it knows when and when not to use four letter words.
At the same time, I strongly believe that there are times when a four letter word is the ONLY word that will suffice.
If only we had a measured place to use such words, with reserved sense of Intelligence to limit how we use it.
We already did.
My vote is firmly in the camp that theses added rules add nothing but heartburn and un-needed confusion.
-Meeko
A poster, who as far as he can tell, has NEVER (ok, apparently I have responded to the pit a total of 3 times. My point remains.) posted to the Pit, and is getting tired, quite frankly, of this debate in the first place.