Re: Looper's Delight offensive language policy (not)

[Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com>]

Tyler I'm not an old timer here but in my opinion there are no bad words, 
only bad communication. I would tell my own son to make his own choices, 
communicate effectively, and try not to worry about the choices of others 
:)

Policy on the board may differ...

Phil :)


On Aug 20, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Tyler wrote:

> Hello! I don't know if anyone has ever paid attention to this, but have 
> you seen how many people have gotten 
> away with swear words on this forum? I remember when we were having a 
> thread about why 
> loopers-delight.com was so out-of-date, but the forum part was as lively 
> as heck. Someone used the 
> F word "Why does everything have to be so f***ing up-to-date?" (I 
> censored the word out so I 
> don't have a bad track-record on this mailing list). And I read the help 
> file (the one that you see 
> when you send an invalid command to the subscription server), and even 
> THAT file had some (yet very mild) 
> language toward the end. Now, I've seen bad language in forums, and if I 
> would have signed up 
> five years ago, I would be long gone by now; I'm less sensitive. But 
> this site is where 
> musicians can communicate with each other, and talk about electronic 
> music technology, share 
> links, write articles about their technology ... but randomly putting 
> the F word in the middle of an 
> article about Mobius? I'm confused! In the days of Kim, would he get 
> upset when someone used a 
> word like that?
> Tyler Z
>