Swearing in RS?

Why should they allow swearing? What would swearing add to the game? Nothing good, that's for sure. Not like I give a ****, but honestly. I don't think allowing swearing is necessary or helpful. People would be much more trollish and abusive if swearing were allowed and I think that if you asked the majority of people on Runescape, they would probably agree. If you put it to a vote, more people would either say they don't care/wouldn't mind or that they wouldn't want it. I probably fit in the "I don't care" category, but I like playing with limited swearing. It makes the game enjoyable and I don't have to worry about someone calling me a ***** *** ****** ****ing *****. Those are all asterisks, btw. You can fill in the words.

Seems to me swearing in a 'generational' thing. Most of you are probably sick of parents and grandparents saying 'In my day ..................' but it is true.

When I was in my teens I didn't swear, some my peers did, but not where an adult could hear them; most of our parents swore a bit but quite mildly, and told off any 'child' (their own or neigbours' or even stranger kids) if they swore. You didn't hear it on the radio or films or in songs.

My children are now in their 40's. Their father and I did not swear (no religious thing, we just chose not to) When the kids came home from school and tried out some choice language they had learnt, we explained there were a lot more interesting ways to describe things than 'lazy' swearing, be inventive without swearing. Did they swear, do they? Yes, I know they do but still not in my hearing.

I am not perfet; having said I do not swear I do mutter occasionally under my breath, usually when I have done something stupid on the computer. I certainly swore when a criminally careless driver wrote off my 33 yr old nephew by his dangerous overtaking; I swore 15 mths later when the driver got let off with the court equivalent if a 'smack on the wrist'

I don't come from some fancy background, but from plain working stock. My father was military, so I guess I heard everything there is to hear. I worked in places with mainly a male workforce. Sometimes I would go into a workplace and lots of people swore. I didn't, but also I never challenged them either. Strangely after a short time the swearing reduced.

So when did it become acceptable to swear in public? Do you swear at school, in the classroom in hearing of your teachers, do you swear at home, in crowded bus or train? If not, why swear on RS? Do you do it because all your mates do it? Does it make you feel stronger, more adult? Take a step away and ask yourself why you swear, does it actually do any good?

Finally, apart from being against rules, RS is a PUBLIC place, people from all countries, all ages, all walks of life. Unless you are in PM or clanchat you are in PUBLIC.

Think about it, it takes longer to type swearwords than it does to think them. You have to deliberatley work out something to get past the censor. Why?

LOL: sermon over and I guess this might stop the thread in its tracks. When I let go it usually does Sad

It's fine how it is, there's no reason to change how it is, it's not really needed and the asterisk'd words are fine as they are.

I really don't see any reason to have foul language in a game like this. I think that it would be reasonable to allow certain words, but they currently allow most of those. I don't see any reason to allow anything further.

If there should be any language regulation at all, it should be limited to just a few words. When writing in Danish, half the text ends up like ******** which is both annoying and pointless.