Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-126761-20170214161640

Hello, Kirkburn from the Fandom Support Team here.

(The following topic has come up on a currently blocked user's message wall, but it has turned into a discussion and I do not want to spam them further.)

It has been drawn to our attention that some users have been pretty casually using language that's against our Terms of Use for the past few months on this wiki. This is not okay.

While we don't ban swearing in general, we do draw the line at particularly nasty language, such as racist, sexist or homophobic slurs. This particularly includes the n-word.

The Terms of Use can be found at http://www.wikia.com/Terms_of_Use#User_Conduct, and are not negotiable.

While you may not be attacking someone with this language, it is still not okay - we do not want an environment where users feel denigrated due to the colour of their skin or their sexual preferences, for example.

I would like to avoid retroactively blocking swathes of people for this behaviour, as you may have felt encouraged to use this language by others doing the same - but let this serve as a general warning: please moderate your behaviour.

Some notes to pre-emptively answer some questions you may have:
 * No, I am not going to make a list of banned words, nor is this an opportunity to list out words (or variations on those words) and ask me if they're banned. Use your common sense - if you doubt a word is okay (because it's a racist insult), don't use it.
 * This does not mean proper ERBH videos that might include such words are banned - context is important. Quoting a 18th-century writer in an article about that writer, on a wiki where an article about that writer makes sense, would potentially be okay. This is rare.

If you have other questions or concerns, let me know - but do note that this is not a debate. 