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> American prudishness Sounds like you need a review of: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Or
by urda 12y ago
> American prudishness
Sounds like you need a review of: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or perhaps just some common decency ? If you want a tool / platform to take off, using the word 'fuck' is not the way to go.
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- Frozenlock 12y agoWhich part of the guidelines? I reread the entire thing and didn't find where it would apply.
- lectrick 12y agoI too read those guidelines in their entirety and there is nothing there at all about the poignant use of so-called "swear words." Also: http://thefuckingweather.com/ http://thefuckingweather.com/ http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ etc.
- dang 12y agoSwear words don't break the HN guidelines. When we ask for civility we have in mind how people treat one another online. Swear words can be used to treat others badly, but they have plenty of other uses. It's not a trivial question, though, and people aren't wrong to disagree. Cultural differences make for very different views here. In some (sub-)cultures swear words are uncivil and in others they are innocuous. There's no model that satisfies all these norms, so inevitably we have to disappoint some. As a consequence of the above, we don't bowdlerize titles either.