I kind of like the way things are, not as an argument, or any right I have for it to be this way, I just like it. There are plenty of other moderated forums with less fuss. But without some fuss there is less folk, I think. Avoiding profanity is a choice someone might like, but some others may like at least the option to mimic what some real folk sound like. Or it may be how they get emphatic. So what. It's just old rutted culture bias that makes these words profane. They aren't, really.
   David Mamet's plays seem to me to demonstrate a corrosive effect of profane, unimaginative use of language, but at the same time, the plays are imaginative, and say Fuck! more often than any comparably serious literature I've ever seen. Twain was vulgar. I can't believe people call each other potty-mouthed. If it's lame, why not say that, if it's misplaced, why not say that. If it was funny or insightful you wouldn't care.
   I like taking up a torch with a troll every now and then, just in sport, because it really doesn't upset me, and it's fun to imagine somebody really like that somewhere, it's boggling, bracing to one's sense of what's real, like the sea, like having to chat with your in-laws.
I'm afraid a really warm, friendly, earnest feel-good folk forum would reinforce stereotypes of minority groups, like folksingers. I would miss the ire and groans of members who can't stand the dominant tone, sometimes, I like the (sometimes) strident voices of some of the conservative capitalist folkies (This land is my land, this land is my land) who challenge liberals to be liberal-minded in the hardest ways.
Although I use my own name and all that, I like fooling around a bit with what my personality is, online. It's a unique outlet, in a way. It's a great site, a resource, a luxury, sometimes a vice. I'm actually trying to quit, except for straight information.