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We are each contributing to how the site evolves. If suggestions such as children might be reading the site are posed as an argument for banning conversation judged to be too adult and Jim goes with it then there's not much we can do besides start up our own alternative which allows for these kinds of conversations.
I would suggest though that if children might read this site then blind people, dyslexic people, people who don't speak English and all the other varieties of people should be cater for in the same manner. It could be the most wonderfully inclusive website the world has ever beheld. Granted there would be nobody on it but on the chance that someone did post - at least everyone could understand what it being said and not feel offended or threatened by it.
They could always just use tumblr instead I suppose, that already exists for exactly those purposes and the rest of us could use here.
I doubt many would want to hang out here if we can't be adults.
Why have 50 Shades of Grey on a site, if the fans have to speak in codes:
"I liked it when Grey did bad words to so n so" (I've obviously never seen the movie but I used it as an example because it's widely known)
The problem we have here are so many entitled princesses thinking they can shove their interpretation of the world down everyone else's throats as if they are doing a moral favor for everyone. Someone was offended because I said the word cunt. OK, I get it but where I'm from that's a perfectly find word used by a vast majority of people in friendly situations. They then go on to use racial slurs referring to spades and don't see that, in my world view, I find that completely wrong.
The bottom line is I'm prepared to let our differences slide, they would rather impose colonial rule over the domain which is my means to express myself.
And of course it will be marched in line with "Think of the children" because goodness knows we should ask the children what they want? Let's just suppose on their behalf and take away their agency to discover conversations which aren't approved by the Minister for Thought.
If Jim wanted bad words banned..he'd beep them out.
But what about 'nasty' topics? Some movies are nasty and people want to comment on it.