Sorry about that, Derby. (I already apologized over ICQ, but I'll do it again here.) Hopefully, it won't happen again; I personally don't like it when I do something wrong and don't even know about it.

(typed everything below on my PDA then transferred it here, there may be lots of typos)

Anyway, my point here (in this pathetic post) is that if fewer people swore on a regular basis, we wouldn't need to censor everything. Obviously, the admins should permanently keep some swearwords censored (the 'worse' ones, and whatever racial slurs there are), but if everyone simply decided to swear less, perhaps they wouldn't have so much of a problem editing out the offensive content.

This isn't a question of free speech. Swearing all the time offline is free speech (unless you direct it at someone and a third party hears the conversation, then it could be considered slander). Here, we have rules (which I just broke, without even knowing it ). Offline, it might be harder to control what you say. Even I have that problem sometiimes--but most of the time, I try not to get out of control. My parents rarely hear me swear, other people don't hear me swear, which is nice, really. Too many people curse loudly so that others will notice them.

Being subtle is a sign of maturity--not this other trash that so many people like (drugs, liquor, blahblahblah). To be subtle means that you are able to control what you say, and that you can control your emotions. Lots of people come online and they can't control what they say. Before Derby gave me some classes on being subtle and less emotional, I was very irrational. Now, if I apply the knowledge he passed on to me to the fullest extent, no one knows what I'm really thinking, no one knows when I'm upset, no one knows when I swear.

It's that simple. Be more subtle, and you will become more mature, and you won't feel a reason to swear 24/7, and you won't have to take out your anger on others. Many people swear because they are angry. Why are they angry? If it's not serious, then it must be because they lack the ability to be subtle.

One of the reasons why people swear is because they can't control what they say. If everyone--not only the admins, not only FreeLance, not only me--is willing to avoid the use of the other word for 'sheol' in the wrong way, I would say that we should uncensor it. But if FreeLance will be the only member to use that word in the right way, you might as well give Derby a couple thousand dollars, a new palace with room for his horses, and a bunch of assistants, to help him edit out all the swearwords. I'm not rich enough to give Derby all that, and no one else here is, so I highly suggest that if you want anything to change for the better, everyone needs to cooperate.

(By the way, my point there was that, if people swore less, the admins wouldn't have to worry so much about censoring words.)
Long post, wasn't it? ;-P

edit: okay, so I typed this at 12AM, let's just say that I made no sense AND went off-topic. Sorry.