User blog comment:MadCrayolaz/Profanity In Chat/@comment-2052424-20131029010921

There is no reason for the chat to have a different set of rules. If spamming is not allowed on the article comments and blogs, then there is no reason for it to not be allowed in the chat. If harassment is not allowed on the article comments and blogs, then there is no reason for it to not be allowed in the chat. If profanity is not allowed on the article comments and blogs, then there is no reason for it to not be allowed in the chat.

If we were to have a separate set of rules just for the chat, then we may as well have a separate set of rules for article comments, and blogs, and message walls. They all operate differently, after all, and have different tones.

You are right, we have rules to protect the CAWiki's users. What good are those rules if people can pick and choose when they want to apply, "Oh, I know it says no profanity, but this is a blog, and this is a chat." Profanity is not prohibited because articles need a 'formal' tone, but because it is bad. What's bad on an article is bad in the chat.

You can make up as many silly rationalizations as you wish, but at the end of the day profanity is against the rules on the CAWiki, and the chat is a part of the CAWiki. It is true, the chat does not have a log of things which are said. That's why we have chat mods, patrolling the chat in search of rule breakers. When they do not enforce the rules, or when they encourage a violation of the rules, then they are deemed unfit to perform their task, and stripped of their rank.

This is the Combat Arms Wiki, not your Borderlands wiki. If you're upset about not having your fingers in every pie, and strings around every puppet, then go back to it.