to think I should not be threatened with a ban for questioning the use of offensive language?

[thefirstMrsDeVere]

I am a member of a very heavily moderated website. Swearing is not allowed at all, threads are pulled regularly if people are mean to each other, not threads about threads are tolerated and you are not allowed to mention anything said before on the boards at all. All these things will result in deletion and warnings.

I have been a member for years (before mumsnet even). There was a particularly nasty thread that was allowed to go on for pages which ended with a woman referring to children with LDs as 'being tapped in the head'..

I started a seperate thread wanting to discuss the use of disabilist language on the site and asking why words like bitch, whore and piss were not allowed yet retard, mong and spaz were.

I was told that some people might think it was ok to use those words so they couldnt filter them out, it wouldnt be fair.

I continuned to question this in a firm but polite manner and have now discovered I have been sent a message telling me that my style of posting is offensive and I have been taken straight to a final warning!

Not that I give a toss, the site is crap. I guess I am taken aback that you can be pretty much threatened into silence if you dare question the mods on this HUGE and well known site.

Its an issue that means a lot to me. If it was a site on which everything went language wise I wouldnt have bothered. But on this prissy site where you cant say bugger - you can call something retarded or monged out with no bother.

I think its bollocks and makes me glad I have mumsnet to come and tell people to fuck off on.

Pah! NMs smilies are spool lame!
I use some of their's when over there,but I use my own secret stash too They're so much more appropriate for certain mighty brawls situations

so lame

Im laughing at "Netiquette" and being given "time out" what is the age limit for posting there, 4?

Thought my ban was over tomorrow,but turns out I am paroled today whoopi!
Can't be fucked to post there any more. the Fanjo thread is 5 pages long,and I will need to read 4.5 pages to get the gist of the bleeding thing

Yup.

I have bypassed the swear filter wiv mi ticka.

Fuck me FanjO I just about pished masel.

Well I see that you can't type "cock" on Netmums. No wonder they don't have a board for people who keep chickens.

IOL you can get 'prick' through,though

So you can! And twunty bollocks I see

Aw Fanj you've been busted!
at all the MNers outing themselves by using the and it not working over there!

I like twunty bollocks, well don't we all?

I saw this huge thread and thought "aye aye, something good must be happening here". Came for the bunfight, stayed for the giggles and now have to leave due to the sparkly ticker induced headache from following links to NM.

I love my ticker, too. Lovely and romantic, two people wandering along the beach to have a shag.

at the money-box EJ. How could I not reply to that?

Sad to say, it's all true. How did I miss the MN thread?

Ah, a good way to start the day! Thanks for the lulz, ladies!

Clay Cock thread

You do know that you have to share a photograph of your DS' pink money box with the slit on top now?

I saw that, EllenJane! cracked me up, that one did! Your ticker that is, although your DS's moneybox was funny too.

Have just put a photo of the moneybox on my profile page, if you want a giggle!

Why isn't my profile page coming up?

Aah, that's better. DS1 was sooo talented.

1000

And one [childish]