Bannings

[mantra]

You are paranoid Annie. I said nothing about your rules - I was actually having a discussion with Rainbow and you weren't part of it. I was just about to ask her if there was something in the current Constitution in regard to comments about family members, but not personal attacks against members or perhaps these are selective rules that Aussie has initiated?

[Outlaw Yogi]

When I originally joined PA in the Dr Shrink - Animal Mother days writing/typing the slang term for a female genitalia came out on screen as 'fluffy bunny' ... so anyone and everyone could refer to anyone or everyone as fluffy bunnies and no-one got their nose out of joint. The word/term in question could not even be spelt with a K (I know 'coz I tried). The only way to get it to appear on screen was to put a .dot.between.each.letter.
Bannings per se, while quite rare, were generally a result of (actual) threats [eg FKoE] or because such Animals constantly filled threads with their off topic personal disputes.
So nobody got banned for use of a slang term some deem offensive because it was almost impossible to post.
I see no reason why this specific word/term altering mechanism cannot be employed here.

Of course, even if the fluffy bunny mechanism was adopted, there's nothing to prevent Animals using equivalent terms from other languages or getting linguistically creative ... so if I refered to an someone as a 'yoni' (sanskrity for female sex organs) it'd be OK despite meaning the same thing because most are ignorant of its definition. And by the same token I could refer to another as a clitoral circumcision or cock cancer and that'd be OK too.

Banning words/terms or Animals for using them can lead to a slippery slope. One could argue for censorship or banning 'nickleback' because it's a Hobbit swear word and a Lord of the Rings fan might take offense, or 'smeg' because it's supposedly a human swear word 3 million years into the future and a Red Dwarf fan might get upset.

IMO taking offense to terms considered profanity merely gives the term power.

[annielaurie]

You are paranoid Annie. I said nothing about your rules - I was actually having a discussion with Rainbow and you weren't part of it. I was just about to ask her if there was something in the current Constitution in regard to comments about family members, but not personal attacks against members or perhaps these are selective rules that Aussie has initiated?

Well actually I am part of it because I am here reading these posts, and because you mentioned my name in your post, and also because you got the reason IQ was banned wrong ..

[mellie]

hey annie, is this one of your content syphoning sites?

http://www.earticles.com/author/DavidJones


If not, disregard, ....

[annielaurie]

When I originally joined PA in the Dr Shrink - Animal Mother days writing/typing the slang term for a female genitalia came out on screen as 'fluffy bunny' ...

... Banning words/terms or Animals for using them can lead to a slippery slope. One could argue for censorship or banning 'nickleback' because it's a Hobbit swear word and a Lord of the Rings fan might take offense, or 'smeg' because it's supposedly a human swear word 3 million years into the future and a Red Dwarf fan might get upset.

IMO taking offense to terms considered profanity merely gives the term power.

I agree, interesting post ..

[mantra]

This is true, Monk. IQ got suspended for attacking family members, something we don't do here on PA. She twists almost literally every subject somehow to make it my fault, or suggest that I had something to do with it, or it was because of me somehow, and then she adds her little twist to it, the quotes around my name, as if to indicate that I'm not a real person. This is typical of the kind of lies Mantra tells about someone she doesn't like ..

You can only assume what's supposed to be done here Annie. You've only recently become an active contributor. Do not accuse me of lying - I'm only questioning you, but you like to evade and like Monk immediately start calling people names.

Who puts "Forum Mod" on their signature? Maybe I should believe that you're a yank - because only a yank would boast about his/her forum status on every post and only a yank would substitute the Queen's english for "dunno, wanna and gonna".

Is the word "yank" still legal on this forum?

[annielaurie]

hey annie, is this one of your content syphoning sites?

http://www.earticles.com/author/DavidJones

If not, disregard, ....

Is that the Annie you have thought all along that I am? No, sorry, you've got the wrong person, I'm not her ..

[annielaurie]

Do not accuse me of lying - I'm only questioning you, but you like to evade and like Monk immediately start calling people names.

Who puts "Forum Mod" on their signature? Maybe I should believe that you're a yank - because only a yank would boast about his/her forum status on every post and only a yank would substitute the Queen's english for "dunno, wanna and gonna".

Is the word "yank" still legal on this forum?

Mantra, you're a piece of work. Keep up the good work ..

[mantra]

Do not accuse me of lying - I'm only questioning you, but you like to evade and like Monk immediately start calling people names.

Who puts "Forum Mod" on their signature? Maybe I should believe that you're a yank - because only a yank would boast about his/her forum status on every post and only a yank would substitute the Queen's english for "dunno, wanna and gonna".

Is the word "yank" still legal on this forum?

Mantra, you're a piece of work. Keep up the good work ..

Yes Monk!

[annielaurie]

Yes Monk!

You're a child ..