User blog comment:Cinnabar The Evil Gem Chemist 55555555555555555550/Relax the rules on swearing - Yay or Nay?/@comment-4189499-20140326220739

If you relax the rules, the wiki won't become overrun with swearing. That is a completely unrealistic reaction to this idea. Anyway, until just then, the navbar didn't even contain a link to the policies page, making it harder for new users to find these rules regarding swearing, so most of the interaction you see on a normal everyday basis is the good-faith editing of people who just know that swearing is inappropriate. Very little will change apart from the fact it will make editors who have made mistakes more likely to come back and improve and become good editors as they are told what they have done is wrong and have been given a chance to change their ways. Rudeness and insults are still off the table, however the words alone should be fine as simply discouraged as opposed to banned. Any words which by their very nature are offensive (ie: slurs) are all of course one warning and then block with censoring of any instance where they are seen.

Please just go read the forum thread which I highlighted and continue the discussion over there. These sorts of policy discussions are best performed in the forum environment where all comments are kept together and everyone is alerted to new messages as opposed to the blog environment where the messages are spread out everywhere and people aren't alerted to new messages. That was how all of the policies at DWA were formed, and as a result people rarely have cause to complain about one once it is published.