User blog comment:Dagostino/Taboo Words/@comment-1886094-20110423211506

I'm sorry, its just hard for me as an admin but not as the creator. I have to choose whether to force rules or revise them. If people ask politely, (like this blogpost), why a certain word isn't allowed, and if it can be, I like to help them out. Then there's the people that say, "Why aren't you respecting Sparrowsong's rules?" So its just hard for me to win, basically. I can't make everyone happy at the same time. That's just life. Its especially difficult to ban things entirely. You might pick up a book that is the best book in the world, and it swears or something. That doesn't mean the book is not a good book. Heck, we read Homer and Shakespeare in school, and they have no problem tossing around wh*re, b*tch, sl*t like its nobody's business. And books usually have a theme they are supposed to imprint on the reader. Maybe their theme is that racism is horrible, and that we should treat everyone with respect. How could they show us that without showing us the horrible truth about racism? By all means, have a character say n*gger every couple sentences, if you're trying to show one character's ignorance as a human being. Its really not difficult to bleep out these words, though I will go through and revise the list. I promise. Personally, I didn’t know half these words in third grade, and if they know them and are on this site, that’s the parent’s problem, not mine.