I believe as this community is essentially a parliamentary session, any vulgar or obscene commentary should be strongly discouraged. Much like the speaker of the house, moderators should consistently remind those who break the above guideline to refrain. Repeat offenders / extreme examples should be subject to a temporary ban.
Thoughts?
edit: I wonder what people think is the purpose of downvotes? Do you not want to have the discussion?
To answer your question, I’ve been downvoting topics on agora when I think the discussion is premature or maybe even a bit troll-y. Probably yes people who are downvoting are doing so because they don’t like the idea and don’t want it discussed. FWIW I upvoted this one though.
As written, I’d be against this. Mostly because I don’t know what is meant by vulgar or obscene - are we just trying to police swearing? - but also because just policing the tone of posts doesn’t generally work to police the spirit of posts. People can make well-meaning points with swear words interspersed, just as people can essentially tell you to go fuck yourself with polite language.
Yeah, as charged as the f-word has become, there’s something a little fascist about rulemaking on a subjective line of good or bad manners. I get that OP probably just means good vibes only, but fuck parliamentary decorum.
Cheerio!