User blog comment:JakePT/The New Normandy/@comment-3538356-20110426185813/@comment-217683-20110427142821

A few things: First, as Teugene pointed out, we're talking a policy change here, and policy changes aren't done via polls. They're done in the policy forum. Next, to address Humans Vanish's points - of course swearing has been around a long time. And of course there's a time and a place for it. All we're saying is that this isn't the place for it. We're not saying swearing in and of itself is a bad thing. Again, we're just asking people not to do it here. And Kiadony is correct: just because something has been around a long time doesn't make it normal. I seem to recall that murder, rape, cannibalism, and ethnic strife have been around for quite some time, yet we as humans (in general) take steps to minimize the occurrence of these, do we not? Obviously swearing isn't quite in that league of nastiness, but the point remains. There's a difference between something that's been around for a while, and a "time-honored tradition".