What the fuck do you care cunt?

Consensus? This your first day on internet or what?

There's not really much need for swearing in most comments/posts I come across on lemmy/kbin, so I'm not surprised it's uncommon.

I don't see a problem with bringing out the occasional swear word for particular emphasis or humour, but when someone can't write regular posts/comments without cursing it's pretty likely they're just a kid trying to be edgy on the internet.

I see swearing as a spice to be used sparingly in our conversations. You don’t want to overdo it, else they lose their effect, you want them there for a purpose or to accentuate a point. I’m not offended by swear words and curse pretty frequently through the day, but in written communication I try to be a bit more thoughtful with how I apply the shit.

Meh, I save my swears for special occasions, for when I want to make it clear shit is real.

Otherwise metaphors more plum than the violets of Persia do me fine. (That's actually a simile.)

If it is needed I will use. Otherwise not.

Cursing all the time is like yelling all the time. It loses its effect. That said, If you're going to swear, don't fucking censor your words. It's just stupid.

Because its fucking rude to curse you shitheaded little twat!

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The common "curse" words like "shit" and "fuck" are pretty impersonal. They can signal an escalation, but are typically pretty minor. They don't even do that when the speaker is like "I just took a huge shit. Don't go in there for a while"

Other words, like racial slurs and anti-queer stuff, invoke more history and violence. If someone calls someone an asshole that's probably not that big a deal. If they call someone a n-word f-gay-slur, there might be a hate crime about to happen.

So I don't use those words. I don't want to bring the stuff they import into the scene.

People who are the typical recipients of the slurs using them themselves is a related topic I'm not very qualified to speak on, and I wouldn't try to police their language.

It can be totally tonally jarring. I swear all the time, but if I threw some swears in my comments from my history then the messages behind them would be weakened.

Every other word (not literally) out of my mouth is a curse word, so much so that I feel less of a need to use them here. Plus every-once-and-a-while peeps take my rando opinions far too seriously. So, (to compensate), I try to be more polite than I would when actually speaking

**** censorship

Cursing and not cursing will both get you pretty much no reaction here.

But... if you self censor curse words with f*** or s***.... some lemmings lose their $#!+!

I love casual profanities, fuck that.

This is the internet. You can say "fuck"

Because I can get my fucking point across without them

For me, it's just uninteresting and pointless, and detracts from when I might use them for emphasis, if they are used all the time.

I also find a lot of popular media leans on vulgar as the entire end game. Like a comedy where the only attempt at being funny is saying words you're not "supposed" to stay. Use your language as you wish, but you better have something more to bring to the table than a willingness to say "dirty" words.

Admittedly, it's not as much a thing as it used to be. With media not caring much about language anymore, it stopped even in theory being funny by itself, but there was a time in the 80s and 90s where a number of personalities were nothing but swearing in contexts they weren't "supposed" to, and it was so boring.

So that carries forward to why I don't bother to swear, because I found it so unimaginative then and that stuck with me.

I swear a lot more irl than I do on here. A lot of a swears value is in the tone you deliver it in, that's kinda how you communicate which variation/definition of "fuck" you're actually using, of the huge number of possibilities. This opens up possibilities for humor, expressing subtle (or not so subtle) emotion, etc.

On here, since I lack that fine control, I tend to just revert to using it as an exclamation. And I just don't do that often, I don't use exclamation marks very often either.

It just lacks the same value. That's all, really.

I don't fucking know!

$&@! it.

honestly less arguments

For me personally, I got into a lot of drawn out arguments on Reddit. I said some LGBTQ performers doing a performance that involved a cross was “child friendly” and for 8 months I still got messages from pearl clutching conservatives calling me a pe**. Here, I try to limit my hot takes to 24 hours of engagement, and I try to be more respectful.

Also, I’d like to think that there is a better class of people here than on Reddit. So, I act accordingly. I like my new home. It’s not totally full of assholes yet, and I don’t fancy creating any.

I noticed my posts don't get submitted when I swear. I also don't post in this case, because sometimes you need to swear to make a point.

Hell if I know

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit. -- Mel Brooks

FUCK YEAH!!!!

Sometimes you feel like a fucking cunt. Sometimes you don't.

Because control freak dickheads think you're being 'uncivil'. Fuck them and the cat they rode in on.

What the fucking fuck kind of panzie azzed question is this. If you can't handle a few fucking grown up words your life will just go down the shitter.
Don't be a whiny azzed biotch and ask such fucked up questions.
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That is all.