Re: Looper's Delight offensive language policy (not)

[Z <zzz@zzz.ch>]

I've been here for a short time, but that's definitely the kind of 
philosophy that makes me happy to have joined.
Cheers
:)
z



Le 21 août 2012 à 02:24, Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com> a écrit 
:

> 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 loopers-delight.com was so out-of-date, but the forum part was as 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
>> 
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