Personally I don't like to be censored and every now and then I like to curse. It is clear that insults and belittling of others it NOT tolerable. But how about using terms like the system is "fucked up"? I can keep my mouth in check if I have to, but I see forbidding some kinds of language just because someone doesn't like to hear it as censorship. As [Keith Thompson][1] put it in SO's meta: > Are there well defined rules for which words are considered expletives and which are not? If not, how the heck are we supposed to avoid them? We don't want [Newspeak][2], do we? After all my cursing as long as it does not insult people personally and belittles them just reflects on me. If people think I'm unprofessional because of that I'm okay with it. But it doesn't change the quality or usefulness of the help I provide so just don't see why. [1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/167210/keith-thompson [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak