Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24210732-20140814221309/@comment-26474238-20140815173058

Yatalu wrote: Just passing by to share my opinion. Feel free to agree or disagree with the above. Two things:
 * 1) KINMUNE isn't scolding. She just warns users when they use a swear word. If swearing happens "occasionally", this shouldn't be often enough to get on your nerves. So yes, if you swear within reason, you'll get a warning and that's it. No big deal.
 * 2) KINMUNE is not a spam bot and it is not annoying. The only reason it would spam is because a lot of swearing is going on. And if that is the case, the chat moderators should have taken action against the people swearing and not against the bot.
 * 3) Even on the screenshot, I can see that KINMUNE is being mocked, and that swear words are being used on purpose to trigger the bot. I'm fairly certain that the logs will also show this. If you guys can't behave like a grown-up, you shouldn't be using this vocabulary either.
 * 4) Swearing is not "expressing yourself". If you are expressing yourself, there is about a million words in English language. Even with a blacklist of 1000 (and I'm sure the blacklist isn't that long), you would still have plenty left.
 * 5) I'm fairly certain that whatever words you use to swear (women with loose morals, feces, coitus) don't refer to physical things encountered that many times a day, and even these words have plenty non-swear alternatives. They aren't exactly words that you would frequently need.
 * 6) Did you ever consider that this feature was created with a reason in mind? Maybe users have already complained about people swearing, maybe it scares off new or even regular editors, maybe previous logs contained a lot of swears. This feature isn't 'snap' added to the bot, it has been coded and written out.

1. There is nothing inherently wrong with swearing. On a mature wiki, those that swear within reason should not have to be worried about receiving warnings. You might not appreciate swears personally, but your personal inhibitions do not detract from the fact that expletives are, indeed, flavour material. I believe Stephen Fry explained it in an amazing way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM

2. I actually do not remember any community consensus on the bot being able to give out warnings for swearing. Giving out a warning is either an administrative action, or backseat modding. For it to be an administrative action, some sort of public consensus needs to be achieved. Otherwise, the bot is being used to satisfy one's personal feelings, which is a form of backseat modding over a subject that breaks no established rules.