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I am a little confused by your post as it seems to contradict itself a bit, so I'll try this bit by bit.

I am just confused over the Cursing section in the Content rule. Now I understand that this is a forum/site that mostly adults use, but there are kids like me and other kids that could find some 'mild' words offensive. I've seen people change letters with * all the time, and nothing gets done about it. I've seen people talk about sex, and say the f-word, and some of it was the cause of my temporary quitting from this site.

To be fair I think the filter has been playing up sometimes, so you might have caught the odd word or two by accident. The mods do try and fix that when they can!

Lately if I feel the need to swear (mid to severe curses) I tend to self censor it by getting rid of all the letters in the offensive word, such as ****. **** could theoretically mean anything after all and isn't that offensive alone. Also note that saying "f***" is basically exactly the same as saying "f-word", as they both use the same amount of letters from the original word.

I mean, seriously, isn't 'mild' cursing just as bad as anything else? I've seen sites so strict... Like one time, on the Chat Room of a Toontown message board, a poor kid got banned for trying to say 'sunk' and his finger slipped, accidently typing 'suck'.

Mild cursing isn't that bad in my opinion. Generally mild curses aren't that offensive at all. In your example, I don't even think the word "suck" is offensive in the slightest! Of course I know what it means, but it's never used in the negative way that other curses are, even when in a similar context. It's a matter of taste. As you're so young you're probably very sensitive to such words while many older people aren't so much.

The fact is that we need a rating to aim for to try and balance things out, and this board is PG13 rating iirc. I reckon that's about right, as a large portion of the forum is older than that but we do have a couple of people such as yourself whom are younger. So we need a rating which allows a tiny bit of leeway for the older forummers without being too offensive to the younger forummers and that's what PG13 allows. Anything lower will become too strict. Anything higher becomes too offensive. Mild cursing is allowed in PG13. Sexual content isn't of course, but generally we try to keep that one down to much more milder levels. Tend to use innuendo and in-jokes instead. You've probably never heard of this series, but it's sort of in line with the Carry On films. Full of innuendo without being directly offensive. We're sort of like that. Of course some people push the rating a bit...

Some people have said that there aren't many mods left, but why?

There are plenty of mods left, but a few have quit over disputes within staff. It's not really my place to say why individual members left, but rest assured that there's still quite a few doin' the patrols still.

I apologise for the monster-sized post.