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[benji]

What's the policy on content?
Same as the old place? Jordan Peterson celibacy? Hunter Bidens Laptop from hell?

Asking for a friend (filler)

Also I noticed some word filters are gone. Are those words ok to use now in context? Not talking about the Nuclear Word obviously but more about the mental state of certain very good people

The policy is be reasonable and for the love of god, put it behind spoilers especially if it's yourself sitting on a toilet.

I'd prefer to think you guys don't need the word filters and that you will just type the old filters yourself because that's funnier. Though I may consider putting back ones that make things funnier when they accidentally or inadvertently trigger or if people really insist on it.

That said, I'd prefer not to enforce any kind of word bans because of what you see going on on ResetERA.com right now with "cunt" and the endless minutiae litigation of such processes. Also, we should be adult enough not to need "bad words" and should refrain from using them simply out of kindness to others and a desire to refrain from deliberate harm if we can help it. You know I'm a free speech maximalist but you also know that I tend not to myself use slurs or similar except to mock the hypocrisy of those who obsess over slurs and dogwhistles while inventing their own in-code ones (see: chud, TERF, etc.) they throw around constantly and wantonly.

I think there are obvious ones you should know not to use in polite company, and The Bore should very much be polite company, but I'm not going to make a list of these and say YOU JUST DID A NUMBER SIX. That also said, to use the example of Kiwi Farms since it's quite easy (when it's up on the regular internet) to find threads full of slurs there, I consider the people who like to just post the various words (and little other content) just because they can there to be idiots contributing to the very thing they feel they are "bravely" resisting in the exact stupid ways they feel they are mocking elsewhere. At the same time, I think there is value in noticing how on places like KF if someone drops such words in a thread about something else the world does not come to an end and focus on the bad actor, the thread continues on around it, the people scandalized and offended are those elsewhere already predisposed to hate the forum and are looking for reasons to justify it. The slurs provide this and this is why they are self-defeating for KF users to post rather than liberatory. Now, you may consider this to be self-serving since Madrun/Arvie took me to task somewhat recently for not criticizing Himu's usage of anti-gay language enough but I very much oppose the idea that we all have a duty of participating in a war of all against all that such mentality demands. My objection was not that Himu's language did not need more forceful rejection, that's a fair debate to have for the community maybe and myself always, instead I objected to Madrun's selective focus on just how only I did not object enough for his tastes and how he was introducing it as some kind of forceful personal attack on my position in a separate thread on a separate topic. If you know anything about my conception of power and the usage thereof in my critique not only of the state but in the moderation actions of NeoGAF/ResetERA and how it informs how I may personally moderate it's how these things provide a figleaf (often ad hoc or even retroactive) justification for arbitrary and capricious actions against those, generally minorities, those in power (or who desire or wish to use power) already seek to persecute.

TLDR: all the rules and due process here will be entirely arbitrary and capricious. But I will listen to your complaints about it. Maybe. You have to use a light touch, like a safecracker or a pickpocket:

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