TECH, please can we have a facility to hide posters who...

[PestoLovelyMonster]

we feel have very offensive names?

I don't want my dcs looking over my shoulders and seeing certain nicknames and asking what they are.

Thank you please

We already moderate our names - we don't have racist names, or names that make rape jokes or jokes about domestic violence - is that a terrible slippery slope?

When people stop self moderating, then censorhips because on the agenda, but only then....

it's not alot to ask to have a name that isn't offensive...this is mumsnet...if you can't have a normal(ish) name on here then maybe you should move up to a site that's abit more "adult"

hear hear daftpunk.

For God's sake.

I can't believe people are getting their knickers in such a twist over seeing a few swearwords on a screen. Freedom of speech is sacred. Being offensive and using swearwords are not the same thing. I get offended by the likes of Richard Littlejohn, Kelvin Mackenzie, Nick Ferrari et al's fascist ranting because of the message they are putting across, not the particular words they use. But I defend their right to express their views, just as I value my right to express my own.

If you really are so over sensitive that you can't handle seeing odd shit or fuck perhaps you would be more at home on a different site.

MN, please don't censor.

I thought this place was for everyone. And who decides what's normal?

Of out interest, would it be okay if 'cuntwhacker' was a man?

I like a good old swear word, so, no I don't see the need.

I vaguely assumed cuntwhacker was a reference to masturbation rather than to domestic violence, too. I'm not sure whether that means I have an unnaturally innocent mind or an unnaturally filthy one...

I don't care to see nasty or obscene names either, but more than that I don't want such censorship on Mumsnet. Self-censorship, OTOH, yes. But that's up to those who chose to use such names.

MP perhaps it would depend on his posting personality? He might be using it in the same way that I enjoy seing women using it, or he might be using it differenly and objectionably. We'd have to get to know him I think. It would be harder for a man to carry it off probably.

People should censor themselves I think. There would be no need to call for moderation if people were actually self moderating.

(I've been assuming it means masturbation not violence -- is that wrong???)

My guess is a man on here called cuntwhacker wouldn't last 2 minutes.

(We do seem to fall into two camps on that, Threadworm. Join me and Lulu in the masturbation camp... umm... as it were...)

(Actually, are you Threadworm, or just a pale imitation? Or has Threadworm always been spelt Thredworm and I've never noticed before?)

That definition makes it seeem a worse and harder to 'reclaim' word than I thought, Kerry. But I think I'd still be on the non-censorship side.

Lol at masturbation camp. In-tents excitement etc.

Yes am she. You have a wolfish posting style Professor?

i'm against censorship but i do feel that some self-censorship wouldn't go amiss.