From: Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com>
To: Tyler <programmer651@comcast.net>
Cc: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Looper's Delight offensive language policy (not)
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loopers-delight.com was so out-of-date, but the forum part was as lively as heck.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
>
