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In reply to the discussion: Expletive-laden OP's get lots of recs but are not productive [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)25. Got a point to make, make it.
This OP is full of shit. It is more Meta style posting from a cohort on DU that misses Meta so much they make Meta posts daily. It attempts to control the lexicon used by others, not by opposing slurs but by ordering people not to swear.
And of course your post was an unsupported attempt at insulting me. Not about the subject matter,but about me. Because some of you live for that sort of thing.
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But search engines are, and web filters are too. DU gets filtered as a domain, not page by page.
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#37
I presume you're talking about the thread which aims the profanity at freepers and tea-partiers
muriel_volestrangler
Oct 2013
#11
DU is not intended to be a harbor for Republicans and independents according to admin
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#32
I wasn't referring to your OP in particular, though this thread seems to.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2013
#17
The SOP of GD says 'no whining about DU' but these Meta type OPs continue to
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#20
No, you and the OP are claiming others are flawed, harming our 'cause' and being angry
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#23
I know what the OP wrote. I also know what I wrote and it has nothing to do with
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2013
#27
The citation wasn't about religion; it was about irony, and it still seems quite apt.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2013
#33
Many people on this site don't like moderate republicans, if there are any left. Some on
bluestate10
Oct 2013
#28
Shakespeare was very profane. Vonnegut used to write 'Why don't you take a
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#34
Lol, I would suggest you trash the thread if it bothers you! Like I am going...
Logical
Oct 2013
#35
There's an English professor in the office next to mine who's offended by my "cursing."
Gidney N Cloyd
Oct 2013
#44