Resolved: Censoring Needs Revising?

[Legobricks]

I'm intrigued to find that the word "d a g o" (censoring bypassed so you'd actually be able to know what word I'm referring to, if I receive an infraction then there is great injustice...) is censored yet "spic", holding the same meaning and being more common, and "bugger" aren't censored.

As the title suggests, I think PC should include a few more words to the censored list.

 

[Legobricks]

xD
Heh, that was certainly swift.

And of bugger, well... Just a selection of meanings, not every one is here.


As a noun:

1. (obsolete) A heretic.
2. (UK law) Someone who commits buggery; a sodomite.
3. (slang, pejorative, UK) A foolish or worthless person, rascal; however also used affectionately: chap.
How are you, you old bugger?

4. (slang, dated) A damn, anything at all.
I don't give a bugger how important you think it is.


Verb:

1. (vulgar, UK) To sodomize.
2. (slang, vulgar in UK) To ruin.
This computer is buggered!


And lastly an interjection:

1. (slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or displeasure.
Oh bugger!

 

[Rukario]

"bugger" holds no (bad) meaning here.. so its not censored. That said, there is nothing to stop the mods from infracting you if YOU (or anyone) used it as a curse word.

 

[Legobricks]

Only censoring US words? Fair enough since this site is based in the US...

 

[Legobricks]

Wow, that dictionary needs some serious modernisation. "Bugger" doesn't carry negative Australian connotations anymore.

Interjections aren't offensive so yeah... All the British meanings hold true though.

 

[Glitter Stain]

That word can be potentially vulgar. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it anyway, so I see nothing against censoring it. (The community wouldn't suffer either way, though).

 

[Legobricks]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone use it anyway, so I see nothing against censoring it.

That's like not putting your seatbelt on because you've never crashed. ;|

 

[Glitter Stain]

That's like not putting your seatbelt on because you've never crashed. ;|

Actually, I think it's quite the opposite. I would compare it to putting on your seatbelt despite the fact that you've never crashed.

 

[Legobricks]

That is a better way to put it, but I think it would've looked odd if I'd said that first.

 

[Red1530]

I think the mods should put up a list of censored words.

 

[Rukario]

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[Mitchman]

HAHAHA. LOL rukario lol. Anyweh foreign curses are um un censored? I mean I think besides me there has to be quite a few people with knowledge on greek curses.