I think most people took my original node in the wrong light. Did I say that he should remove his signature? The person who reaped the node (mrpilot) did so with the reason "Not the way to handle this sort of thing" as if I was trying to get him to remove his signature... I was simply airing my opinion. And wanted to field others.

And this is clearly an item for Perl Monks discussion. It involves a monk (or two, if you add the posting party) and obscenity is certainly an item of discussion... in fact what are the rules regarding obscenities?

And why did others not get to vote on whether or not to preserve my node? At least one person concurred with my offense to the signature and /msg'ed me with a ++

Please dont allow your personal opinions to influence what is clearly a monestery matter of great importance (read: dont go around deleting nodes when you have no good reason to do so other than your own opinion, which is clearly flawed). Oh did I hear the word 'monastery'? Have I not been told this is a place to come in work and peace and harmony? What happens when things become disharmonious? Do you squash me with authority? Do you discuss it? Ask yourself these questions.

on to the discussion

I find the following text:
MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
unacceptably offensive on two grounds
  1. It uses the word "shit"
  2. It makes a negative and insensitive reference to the mentally handicapped (retardo)

If you want to filter out obscene words, I recommend my own Regexp::Common::profanity_us

Carter's compass: I know I'm on the right track when by deleting something, I'm adding functionality

In reply to Let's discuss Podmaster's Signature by princepawn

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