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[Griselda]

She answered by the way of her actions.

I also sent you a private message this morning. You seem to want everything out in public, since you did not reply to my private message, so I will answer you here.

It has been a long standing policy of the Lurker Lounge that swear words are not acceptable in posts. That's why we have the swear filter in place. But, we recognize that the swear filter can't catch everything, nor would we want it to (I suppose someone might want to talk about Dick Cheney, for example). So, the moderators have to step in to maintain this policy.

It has also been a long standing policy of the LL that we do not change people's posts. Either it all has to go, or we leave it all up. This was at the request of the forumgoers, from back when we used to edit partial posts. That way, everyone can always be certain they are reading the original poster's words, without omission.

So, if there's a swear word in the post, we can't leave it up. We have to remove the whole post via editing. I don't delete posts because that can do bad things to the thread tree. Also, the reminders are probably helpful for new people so that they can gauge what's acceptable here.

If you swear in your posts here, the post will be removed, whether it's one "bad" word or 1,000. Please don't test me to find out where I draw the line as far as what words are acceptable.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go do some work that will hopefully be more rewarding than this.

-Griselda