Allow some swearing?

Andrew Evenstar · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:56 am Post subject: Allow some swearing?

I'm not saying allow the BAD words, maybe allow like a$$ and $hit. LOL idk this is a funny topic, but just an idea. I think everyone is old enough here and mature enough. sorry this may be a stupid topic to you.
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Lakers Dynasty 2000 · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 1:46 pm Post subject:

BDG · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:37 pm Post subject:

Yeah, before we allowed it all, but then it started getting out of control, to the point where we couldn't have good basketball talk on the site.

Personally, I think it should remain the same. 99% of the time you can say the same thing without cussing-- remember, we have younger members on the board too.
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Andrew Evenstar · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

clublakers · Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately if we allow one bad word, we have to allow all of them. We used to when we had a smaller member base, but as we grew we learned three important lessons... swearing creates:

1) Complaint e-mails from our members
2) Loss of members (for those who don't complain but don't like it)
3) A reputation of being an immature Lakers forum and not to be taken seriously

None of these helped in our growth, but I think we have been able to ressurect our situation by outlawing the swearing.

It's not entirely the way I would have wanted it, but I think we can all agree that the survival of the board is important -- and to keep it going strong we have to accomodate all of our members, young, old, and swolswol. man1

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Andrew Evenstar · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 1:51 am Post subject: