> seriously. if it is nsfw, it is good enough for folks who get offended
> easily to not read it. for the rest of us, do we need to google for a
> rot13 translator or write one to be wowed by your greatness?
>
> demands it in rot26 and to hell with those offended easily.
i'm sorry, but i can't support your stance there. this googlegroup can
easily morph into a locker room that way and no one will even notice.
i don't think a good percentage of us want that?
all of us are adults here, yes, but it's not about protecting
innocence or avoiding being offensive to people. it's about having
such an environment where everyone feels like commenting,
contributing. and for the same reason, i won't stand for trolling,
flamewars and name-calling.
and in my personal opinion, it isn't really great humour if a good
percentage of the audience don't get it or dont like it or are
offended by it. you wouldn't be making a joke about a funeral at a
birthday party, would you? or crack programming language jokes at a
lawyers' convention?
censoring isn't the sort of thing to impose on a group committed to
humour. i leave it to each individual to use their discretion, to
self-censor if they see the need for it - it is not written in stone
about what jokes are offensive, or to use rot13, or RSA, or whatever.
All I'm asking for is to keep in mind the sort of environment we want
- threads which anyone can join, no one feels embarrassed to reply to,
and most of all, laugh about.
that shouldn't be too hard, considering we are all mature adults?
and mohan, what hell hast thou rot! On Friday the Thirteenth, at that.