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

There have been many blog posts made about the swearing rules on this wikia, some saying they are too harsh.

Someone even posted a blog post with several swears in them to make a point. Although I edited them out (so I could resist the urge to block them) it made me think.

In this wikia's early months, there were always rules against swearing, but they were much more relaxed. I bet at least 3 people here will remember the time they swore in comments and got a warning. Blocking Jian felt horrible, but really, all he/she did was the same thing that would have had a warning only a few months ago.

So I am wondering, is it time to relax the rules a bit? Allow maybe a little bit of swearing in the comments and/or blogs, and maybe change some of the words that are blockable?

I only consider 4 words bannable - the S-bomb, the F-bomb, the C-bomb and the racist N.

But people have made it clear that words like bitch, ass and things like that (words I don't consider bad) should also be banned.

But then if I relax the rules... people are free to swear without punishment. The comments will be overrun by swearing in no time. And this is what I never wanted. I wanted to be able to read through the comments of pages and not come across a swear every five seconds. It really does make the wikia look bad.

I don't actually find swearing offensive in real life, but then again, I'm not 100% me when I'm on here. If I repeated what I said to the guy who stole my calculator in class today on here, I would have to block myself.

But what I am worried about is children leaving/complaining to parents about the swearing. And that is why swearing is blocked. Will relaxing the rules make swearing spiral out of control?

And what about admins? Admins should set a good example. So what happens when they start swearing? It will have a knock-on effect.

And if we do relax the rules, at what point should someone be blocked? When they S-bomb five times in a day? But then they might push it by dropping four a day!?

I think you see why I decided to just block it altogether. There are too many complications. I know they are just words. I know they are just four letters arranged in a certain order. But it makes the wikia look bad if there is a lot of swearing.

So what do you guys think? Relax rules or not? And what do you think the new parameters should be?