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Comment by Wulf_ | Hacker News Reader

:( it's the second time today I've read the 'F' word on HN. I usually don't encounter it here which makes me like this community more.

I'm not a leader of this community so my opinion doesn't matter but as a fellow human I'd like to request that you use another word to express yourself. I know this is subjective but I wanted to share this with you. In any case, I hope you have a good day :)

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Cursing is pretty common on here. Just re-read the guidelines and there's no rules against inappropriate language like the "f-word"... Especially when considering such a benign usage as the parent comment, ie: just replacing the verb in "mess with" which is not targeting the language at anyone/anything.

It may not be as common as other platforms, but casual conversation does happen here which includes the occasional curse word.

Just trying to inform - I'm sorry you're sensitive to it.

Thanks for letting me know, I really appreciate it :)

folkhack is correct - I'll just add that this has been the case for a long time on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - indeed it's always functioned this way. We care about people not being mean to each other, but profanity isn't that.

No doubt there are downsides and I'm sorry that it's disagreeable to you.

Keep in mind that you're not allowed to use any sort of colorful language when disagreeing with whatever the mainstream take on an issue is. Those people get down-voted and a bunch of "y u so mad" (but in better more relevant words, this is HN, not youtube comments) replies. Hooray for double standards.

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