I don't mind the odd four lettered word but yes we do should remember to keep a healthy balance. One of the annoying things of ETO was the over the top censoring of some words right up to the ridiculous, it went from keeping out the profane to keeping out anything vaguely "politically incorrect". I was p[leased to find that this forum allows freedom of expression and cherish it but of course we have to act like adults for it to work as intended. Yes people are wound up by the use of certain words in a certain context.
What annoyed me more than anything was there was a bad word filter but it didn't censor really bad words such as fuck or cunt, the only word I found was censored was porn which is totally ridicules.
For example Hero there are things that wind one person up while others will see no problem. Remember our discussion the other night about my facebook comment ? well not that anyone gets it but personally I feel very offended and insulted that members of a social club which I give my time to help manage and run should convert all of their event management to facebook and not tell anyone or ask if it's ok or provide any other alternative basically giving me the message that if I'm not on facebook I'm not welcome.
I don't think it's a simple as that.
For a start it's not Rushden who are excluding you for not using Facebook, it's Huntingdon and all that happened was someone got annoyed because you ranted about how much you hate Facebook so deleted your message.
Now no swearing or other offensive language was required here, the simply fact of someone's behaviour has very much annoyed me to the point I call it an insult. Just an example although not a good one I admit.
Well yes I see your point and agree.
I've also noticed how my behaviour and glossywhite's have been similar here: we both made silly posts then got defensive when people had a go and eventually apologised. The thought process is as follows: get angry about something so rant using all sorts of bad words, then become even more annoyed when people have a go so get defensive, (justify the bad behaviour and pretend everyone else has the problem), eventually realise our rant probably wasn't the best way of dealing with it and finally, after swallowing our pride, admitting we didn't go about it the right way and apologise.
You have a right to be annoyed about them using Facebook but it wouldn've been better to say something like "Most of our club don't use Facebook, could you please email me about your events in future" rather than ranting. I'm not saying you apologise (it wasn't that bad) just go about it in a different manner.